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Description
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“"The price of progress." He placed one foot on the towline and leaned against the rail beside Teddy, and they watched the island attempt to define itself. "With the leaps-and there are leaps going on, don't kid yourself, leaps every day-happening in the field of mental health, a place like this will cease to exist. Barbaric they'll call it in twenty years from now. An unfortunate by-product of the bygone Victorian influence. And go it should, they'll say. Incorporation will be the order of the day. You are all welcomed into the fold. We will soothe you. Rebuild you. We are all General Marshalls. We are a new society, and there is no place for exclusion. No Elbas.”
Chuck Aule
First Sentence
Teddy Daniels' father had been a fisherman.
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- Dennis Lehane (Author)
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