Mystic River (novel)
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Mystic River is a novel by
Academy Award-winning film
in 2003.
Plot
The novel's plot revolves around three boys who grow up as friends in
child molesters
while he, Sean, and Jimmy are horsing around on a neighborhood street. Dave escapes and returns home days later, emotionally shattered by his experience. The novel then moves forward twenty-five years: Sean has become a homicide detective, Jimmy is an ex-convict who currently owns a convenience store, and Dave is a shell of a man. Jimmy's daughter disappears and is found brutally murdered in a city park, and that same night, Dave comes home to his wife, covered in blood. Sean is assigned to investigate the murder, and the three childhood friends are caught up in each other's lives again.
Film adaptation
Best Adapted Screenplay (Brian Helgeland).
Awards and nominations
Mystic River won the 2002 Dilys Award presented by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.[1] The same year, it also won the Massachusetts Book Award.[2]
Notes
- ^ "The Dilys Award". Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
- ^ "Book awards Honor Kunitz and Massachusetts authors". Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
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