Coronado: Stories

Dennis Lehane can be a good writer when he wants to. There are flashes of his ability in this collection but too often he careens from cliche to self conscious attempts at being literary. The stories aren't bad but the play is frankly embarrassing to read at times. Maybe David Mamet can successfully have characters recite soliloquies that no one in real life would ever say but not Dennis Lehane. Dennis, go back and watch The Wire–Omar never talked like that.