World Gone By

2015 novel by Dennis Lehane

978-0060004903OCLC886672432

World Gone By is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2015.

Plot summary

Ten years after the events chronicled in the prior novel, Live by Night, Joe Coughlin is working as the consigliere to the crime family headed by his former partner Dion Bartolo. Outwardly, Joe is a respectable Tampa-area businessman active in charity events and a devoted single father to his son, Tomás. Inside the crime family, Joe is seen as a golden goose, as his sound business decisions enabled the family to profit in the years between Prohibition and World War II, and serves as a go-between for respectable society and the crime syndicate. He is seen as untouchable, but Joe soon learns from a convicted murderer that a hit has been placed on him, and spends the next two weeks unraveling the motives for the hit while simultaneously trying to avoid it.

Reception

Critics were generally complimentary of the novel, which caps a loose trilogy of novels with characters populated from the Coughlin family. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called World Gone By "suspenseful, devious, well-constructed and ... filled with ethical questions."[1] Colette Bancroft of Tampa Bay Times said the novel was "a classic gangster epic, a darkly violent tale enriched by sharp insight into American life and Lehane's beautifully crafted prose."[2]

See also

  • iconNovels portal

References

  1. ^ "Review: Dennis Lehane's 'World Gone By' Completes a Loose Trio of Novels". The New York Times. April 1, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  2. ^ Bancroft, Colette (March 4, 2015). "Review: Lehane's beautifully crafted 'World Gone By' brings high-velocity end to trilogy". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved July 27, 2015.

External links

  • Dennis Lehane discussing World Gone By on WGBH on YouTube
  • Author's website
  • Publisher's website
  • Sachs, Lloyd (March 5, 2015). "Review: 'World Gone By' by Dennis Lehane". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  • Swanson, Peter (March 7, 2015). "Dennis Lehane's 'World Gone By' is a killer". Boston Globe. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  • Oldenburg, Don (March 14, 2015). "Lehane Mob novel is hard to refuse". USA TODAY. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
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Dennis Lehane
Bibliography
Kenzie-Gennaro novels
Coughlin novels
  • The Given Day (2008)
  • Live by Night (2012)
  • World Gone By (2015)
Other works
  • Mystic River (2001)
  • Shutter Island (2003)
  • Coronado: Stories (2006)
  • The Drop (2014)
  • Since We Fell (2017)
  • Small Mercies (2023)
Lehane at a book signing in February 2009
Filmography
Adaptations
  • Mystic River (2003)
  • Gone Baby Gone (2007)
  • Shutter Island (2010)
  • The Drop (2014)
  • Live by Night (2016)
Other
  • The Wire
    • "Dead Soldiers"
    • "Refugees"
    • "Clarifications"
  • Boardwalk Empire
    • "Resignation"
  • Mr. Mercedes
    • "Gods Who Fall"
    • "People in the Rain"
    • "Willow Lake"
    • "Jibber-Jibber Chicken Dinner"
    • "Missed You"
    • "Fell On Black Days"
    • "Nobody Puts Brady in a Crestmore"
    • "Walk Like a Man"
  • The Outsider
    • "In the Pines, In the Pines"
    • "Tigers and Bears"
  • Black Bird
  • Firebug