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Godfather
by Mario Puzo
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The Godfather—The Epic Tale Of Crime And Betrayal That Became A Global Phenomenon. Almost Fifty Years Ago, A Classic Was Born. A Searing Portrayal Of The Mafia Underworld, The Godfather Introduced Readers To The First Family Of American Crime Fiction, The Corleones, And Their Powerful Legacy Of Tradition, Blood, And Honor. The Seduction Of Power, The Pitfalls Of Greed, And The Allegiance To Family—These Are The Themes That Have Resonated With Millions Of Readers Around The World And Made The Godfather The Definitive Novel Of The Violent Subculture That, Steeped In Intrigue And Controversy, Remains Indelibly Etched In Our Collective Consciousness.
About The Author
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film. His last novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001. At periods in the 1950s and early 1960s, Puzo worked as a writer/editor for publisher Martin Goodman’s Magazine Management Company. Puzo, along with other writers like Bruce Jay Friedman, worked for the company line of men’s magazines, pulp titles like Male, True Action, and Swank. Under the pseudonym Mario Cleri, Puzo wrote World War II adventure features for True Action.
Puzo’s most famous work, The Godfather (1969), was encouraged by a suggestion of the publisher of his The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965) who thought that if there was more mafia that it would have been more successful. A story outline was prepared and presented to the publisher who rejected it. After several publishers were approached, Putnam editors met with him without having read the outline. He told them a few stories and the project was approved. With the advance, he got on with the project. He had heard anecdotes about Mafia organizations during his time in pulp journalism.
Skryf Review
Amazing read.TheGodfather is a famous crime novel written by Italian American author Mario Puzo. It details the story of a fictional Mafia family based in New York City headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia. The Corleone family and the mob war fight with the other four mafia families in New York is the central issue. After Don Vito Corleone is shot by men working for drug dealer Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo, Corleone’s two sons, Santino and Michael, must run the family business with the help of consigliere Tom Hagen and the two caporegime Peter Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio. When Michael murders Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey, an Irish police officer on the drug lord’s payroll, the conflict escalates into a full-scale war which results in Santino’s murder and Michael’s ascension to the head of the family. Michael initially desires to legitimize the family business, but gradually becomes even more ruthless than his father, orchestrating the murder of all of the family’s enemies, including his brother-in-law Carlo Rizzi, who played a part in Santino’s murder. Michael then sells all the family’s businesses in New York and moves the Corleones to Lake Tahoe, Nevada.