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Apr 1, 2015 · “World Gone By” is, of necessity, the most elegiac of the three. But it’s also suspenseful, devious, well-constructed and as filled with ethical questions as it is with gangsters.
Mar 10, 2015 · World Gone By. Dennis Lehane. 3.92. 11,307 ratings1,208 reviews. Late spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe Coughlin now works as a consigliere to the infamous Bartolo Crime Family, effortlessly handling its interests in Tampa, Boston, and Cuba.
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Mar 10, 2015 · A multilayered, morally ambiguous novel of family, blood and betrayal. Working against a backdrop of World War II, Lehane continues and perhaps concludes the ambitious series of historical novels that began with the epic sweep of The Given Day (2008) and continued with Live By Night (2012).
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Apr 3, 2015 · Christoph Niemann. By Marilyn Stasio. April 3, 2015. Joe Coughlin was just a wide-eyed boy in “The Given Day,” Dennis Lehane’s epic novel about a family of Boston cops who prospered in the early...
Mar 16, 2015 · March 16, 2015. Set in Tampa, Florida, during World War II, Dennis Lehane’s novel “World Gone By” is driven by plotting that offers a brief and cathartic escape from the often repetitive ...
Mar 5, 2015 · Review: ‘World Gone By’ by Dennis Lehane. By Lloyd Sachs. PUBLISHED: March 5, 2015 at 9:28 a.m. | UPDATED: May 9, 2019 at 10:15 p.m. “I … love being a gangster!” says Rico, one of the...
Mar 13, 2015 · Now we are favored with WORLD GONE BY, the third and best volume in the Coughlin trilogy, which should lay to rest any lingering doubt about Lehane. It is a work of dark and stark genius, an unforgettable tale of grim honor tinged with sorrow. "So how good is WORLD GONE BY?
