Coughlin Trilogy · Book 3
World Gone By
- Published
- 10 March 2015
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780062325105
- Type
- novel
About this book
World Gone By closed the trilogy on March 10, 2015, at 320 pages -- its shortest entry -- following an older, more compromised Joe Coughlin through wartime Florida in 1943.
Its place in Coughlin Trilogy
World Gone By is book 3 in the Coughlin Trilogy series. It follows Live by Night. See the full Coughlin Trilogy reading order.
The Coughlin Trilogy is Dennis Lehane's sweeping departure from contemporary Boston crime fiction into twentieth-century American history, following the Coughlin family -- Irish-American, Boston police -- and in particular Danny and later Joe Coughlin across three decades of Prohibition, organised crime, and social upheaval. The Given Day (2008) opens with the 1919 Boston police strike and the influenza pandemic, weaving Babe Ruth and real historical figures into a story about labour, race, and the limits of…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062325105