World Gone By

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World Gone By
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Author Dennis Lehane
Country United States
Language English
Genre Crime fiction
Publisher William Morrow and Company
Publication date
March 10, 2015(3 years ago) (2015-03-10)
Media type Hardcover, audiobook
Pages 320
ISBN 978-0060004903
OCLC 886672432

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

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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.

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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]

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References

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