Lehane’s crime caper can’t escape its televisual roots
fiction: World Gone By. By Dennis Lehane. Little, Brown, €19a. Reviewed by Kevin Power
We seem to be in the middle of a strange cultural feedback loop. It’s become a cliché to remark that the best TV shows of the last 15 years – The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, True Detective – are good in part because they’re novelistic. DVD box ...