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Shutter island biography model
Shutter Island
2003 novel by Dennis Lehane
For the film based on the book, see Shutter Island (film).
Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by HarperCollins in April 2003.
It is about a U.S. Marshal who goes to an isolated hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the disappearance of a patient who is a multiple murderer. Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be an homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp.
He described the novel as a hybrid of the works of the Brontë sisters and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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His intent was to write the main characters in a position where they would lack 20th-century resources such as radio communications. He also structured the book to be "more taut" than his previous book, Mystic River.[1]
Lehane was inspired by the hospital and grounds on Long Island in Boston Harbor for the model of the hospital and island.
Lehane had visited it in the Blizzard of