Mario Puzo
Puzo was born in a poor family of Neapolitan immigrants living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Many of his books draw heavily on this heritage. After graduating from the City College of New York, he joined the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Due to his poor eyesight, the military did not let him undertake combat duties but made him a public relations officer stationed in Germany. In 1950, his first short story, The Last Christmas, was published in American Vanguard. After the war, he wrote his first book, The Dark Arena, which was published in 1955. 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, was first published in 1969 after he had heard anecdotes about Mafia organizations during his time in pulp journalism. He later said in an interview with Larry King that his principal motivation was to make money. He had already, after all, written two books that had received great reviews, yet had not amounted to much. As a government clerk with five children, he was looking to write something that would appeal to the masses. With a number one bestseller for months on the New York Times Best Seller List, Mario Puzo had found his target audience. The book was later developed into the film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning three, including an Oscar for Puzo for Best Adapted Screenplay. Coppola and Puzo collaborated then to work on sequels to the original film, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III. Puzo wrote the first draft of the script for the 1974 disaster film Earthquake, which he was unable to continue working on due to his commitment to The Godfather Part II. Puzo also co-wrote Richard Donner's Superman and the original draft for Superman II. He also collaborated on the stories for the 1982 film A Time to Die and the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club. Puzo never saw the publication of his penultimate book, Omertà, but the manuscript was finished before his death, as was the manuscript for The Family. However, in a review originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that Omertà may have been completed by "some talentless hack." Siegel also acknowledges the temptation to "rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis -- that [Puzo] wrote it and it is terrible." Puzo died of heart failure on July 2, 1999 at his home in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York. His family now lives in East Islip, New York.
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50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLAMario Puzo’s classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld.A #1 New York Times bestseller in 1969, Mario Puzo’s epic was turned into the incomparable film of the same name, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the original classic that has been often imitated, but never matched. A tale of family and society, law and order, obedience and rebellion, it reveals the dark passions of human nature played out against a backdrop of the American dream.With a Note from Anthony Puzo and an Afterword by Robert J. Thompson
After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work--a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . .The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Giuliano back with him to America. But Giuliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Giuliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption--and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone's fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Giuliano: warrior, lover, and the ultimate Siciliano.
The last don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless man who is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose vision is threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a vicious war between two blood cousins.This is a mesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds of the mob, the movie industry, and the casinos - where beautiful actresses and ruthless hit men are ruled by lust and violence, where sleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk with power, where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, and where one man controls them all.
To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew." To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him ... and how, while the Don's children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come.Now his time has arrived. The Don is dead, his murder one bloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit --- from the deadly compromises made by an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPD detectives and the frightening plans of a South American Mob kingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers, betrayers and loyal soldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Because after all these years, this moment is in his blood ...
Mario Puzo first answered the question 'What is a family?' with the creation of the Corleones in his landmark best seller The Godfather. Now, 30 years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history, the Borgias.In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to 15th century Rome, and reveals to us the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: simple, unloved Jofre; irascible, heartless Juan; beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration. Their stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage.A labor of love two decades in the making, The Family marks the final triumph of one of the greatest storytellers of our time.
"A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather. Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve into the dangerous underbelly of American life. From Las Vegas to New York to Hollywood, there is one thing that remains constant: organized crime and the law are simply two sides of the same coin...
Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, and with a new preface by the author, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.
A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K .President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of his forebears– good looks, privilege, wealth–and is the very embodiment of youthful optimism. Too soon, however, he is beaten down by the political process and, disabused of his ideals, he becomes a leader totally unlike what he has been before.When his daughter becomes a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot, Kennedy, who has obsessively kept alive the memory of his uncles’ assassinations, activates all his power to retaliate in a series of violent measures. As the explosive events unfold, the world and those closest to him look on with both awe and horror.
A novel of blood and vengeance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Godfather.Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose-or to be taken from him.Captured by the Nazis, Michael was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subject upon which his captors committed atrocity upon atrocity. But not before they did the same to his wife-and unborn son. He's lived with the horror of that experience for ten years.Now, Michael Rogan has returned to Europe to find the men who tortured him. And he's going to make sure that they never have to live with the horror as he did...They will die with it.
Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena –an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once loved–and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue, as he succumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision–between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death. . . .
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In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to overnight success after the publication of The Godfather. With equal parts cynicism and humor, Puzo recounts the book deal and his experiences in Hollywood while writing the screenplay for the movie. Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, Peter Bart, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino all make appearances-as does Frank Sinatra, in his famous and disastrous encounter with Puzo. First published in 1972, the essay is now available as an ebook for the first time. A must-have for every Godfather fan!Featuring a foreword by Ed Falco, author of The Family Corleone.
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Mario Puzoâ€s tale of loyalty and revenge follows the fortunes of the Corleone family, torn apart when the shooting of patriarch Vito escalates into a war among New Yorkâ€s Mafia. Michael Corleone reluctantly takes on the business and embarks on a violent plan to save the family.
Dintre cele cinci familii mafiote care isi disputa suprematia in New York, cea mai puternica este condusa de Don Corleone. Prin lovituri rapide si sangeroase, Nasul aranjeaza orice, pentru familie, aliati si protejati. Finilor sai mai ales,nu le poate refuza nimic. Unul dintre ei nu primeste rolul pe care-l dorea. Producatorul filmului se va trezi intr-o buna dimineata cu capul celui mai frumos cal de rasa al sau asezat pe covorul din dormitor…
Wyjątkowe wydanie ze specjalnym wstępem Francisa Forda Coppoli przygotowanym z okazji pięćdziesięciolecia wydania Ojca Chrzestnego.W skład trylogii wchodzą trzy powieści Mario Puzo: Ojciec Chrzestny, Sycylijczyk oraz Omerta. Na podstawie każdej z nich powstały cieszące się ogromną popularnością ekranizacje.Trzy porywające opowieści o honorze i nienawiści, szacunku i pogardzie, miłości i śmierci, w których Puzo wciąga czytelnika w mroczny świat przemocy, w którym każda zniewaga musi zostać zmyta krwią.Ojciec ChrzestnyJedna z najwybitniejszych powieści XX wieku, zekranizowana przez Francisa Forda Coppolę z genialnymi rolami Marlona Brando i Ala Pacino. Porywająca opowieść o honorze i nienawiści, szacunku i pogardzie, miłości i śmierci.Vito Corleone jest Ojcem Chrzestnym jednej z sześciu nowojorskich rodzin mafijnych. Sprawuje rządy żelazną ręką, a ci, którzy nie podporządkowują się jego decyzjom, nie mogą liczyć na łaskę. To człowiek honoru, ale zarazem tyran i szantażysta, który wśród wrogów wzbudza strach, a wśród przyjaciół – zasłużony, choć nie całkiem bezinteresowny, szacunek. Kiedy odmawia uczestnictwa w nowym, niezwykle opłacalnym interesie – handlu narkotykami – wchodzi w ostry konflikt z cosa nostrą. Przyszłość rodziny może uratować tylko najmłodszy syn Vita, Michael, bohater wojenny, który z brudnymi interesami nie chciał mieć nic wspólnego. Czy okaże się godnym następcą Ojca Chrzestnego?SycylijczykDruga część trylogii zapoczątkowanej „Ojcem Chrzestnym”. Puzo wciąga czytelnika w mroczny świat sycylijskiej prowincji, świat przemocy, w którym każda zniewaga musi zostać zmyta krwią. Po dwuletnim pobycie na Sycylii syn Vita Corleone, Michael, ma powrócić do domu. Ojciec Chrzestny zleca mu ważną misję: ma zabrać do Ameryki Salvatore Guiliana, uwielbianego przez wszystkich legendarnego sycylijskiego banitę, który od kilku lat na czele swojej bandy broni uciskanych ziomków przed wszechwładzą miejscowych bogaczy i przywódców mafijnych.OmertaOmertà – zmowa milczenia – pozwoliła włoskiej mafii przetrwać przez lata. Jej złamanie oznacza śmierć i utratę honoru. U schyłku XX wieku honor ma jednak poważnego konkurenta – pieniądze. Czy to właśnie one są motywem zabójstwa popełnionego w biały dzień w samym środku Manhattanu na Raymonde Aprilem, czołowym amerykańskim mafiosie, który przed trzema laty zerwał z działalnością przestępczą? Czy może chodziło o złamanie mowy milczenia?
Dintre cele cinci familii mafiote care isi disputa suprematia in New York,cea mai puternica este condusa de Don Corleone.Prin lovituri rapide si sangeroase, Nasul aranjeaza orice,pentru familie,aliati si protejati. Finilor sai mai ales,nu le poate refuza nimic.Unul dintre ei nu primeste rolul pe care-l dorea.Producatorul filmului se va trezi intr-o buna dimineata cu capul celui mai frumos cal de rasa al sau asezat pe covorul din dormitor...
《教父三部曲典藏版(2014全新完整译本)》内容简介：《教父(全新完整译本)》内容简介：“为了正义，我们必须去求唐·柯里昂。”向唐·柯里昂求助的人，希望从不会落空。他说一不二，不许空头支票，他是黑手党的教父，他主宰着纽约的地下世界，他是弱者的守护神。你只需要拿出真诚的友谊，就能够得到他的庇护。唐的家族拒绝染指毒品生意，遭到其他黑手党报复。唐·柯里昂受到重创，但是苦难使他和儿子们的关系更加亲密，让家族变得更加强大。小儿子迈克尔·柯里昂在危机时刻谨记父亲的教诲。他选择了家族、荣誉和责任，他为兄弟复仇、为家族清理门户，成为家族的继承者，成为新的教父。面对无法摆脱的宿命，你需要《教父》的指引。这是以眼还眼，以牙还牙的绝对公平。《教父2:西西里人(全新修订译本)》内容简介：1950年，迈克尔·柯里昂即将结束在西西里的流亡。教父命令他把一个叫萨尔瓦多·吉里安诺的土匪带到美国。但是吉里安诺背负着沉重的血债深仇。吉里安诺是西西里的罗宾汉，他反抗腐败的政府、藐视黑手党的事业。在迷雾笼罩的群山峻岭和古老的遗迹之中，迈克尔·柯里昂的命运与最危险战士、情人和西西里人——吉里安诺息息相关。
Ο Ντον Βίτο Κορλεόνε, ο Νονός, είναι καλός οικογενειάρχης, άνθρωπος γενναιόδωρος και λογικός... αλλά επίσης αδίστακτος μαφιόζος, αρχηγός ενός από τα μεγαλύτερα συνδικάτα του εγκλήματος στη Νέα Υόρκη. Εντούτοις οι μέρες του είναι μετρημένες και το μέλλον της αυτοκρατορίας του, που την έχτισε με αίμα, ίντριγκες και κομπίνες στη διάρκεια μιας πολυτάραχης ζωής, βρίσκεται στα χέρια των τριών γιων του: του αψίθυμου Σόνι, του άβουλου και άστατου Φρέντι και του αδιάφορου Μάικλ, που αρνείται να συμμορφωθεί με την οικογενειακή παράδοση, αλλά θα αναγκαστεί να έρθει αντιμέτωπος με το πεπρωμένο του μέσα από την προδοσία, την τιμωρία, την εκδίκηση και την απώλεια. Σε αυτό τον κύκλο αίματος, ωστόσο, τίποτα δεν είναι προσωπικό. Απλώς μπίζνες.
The only thing that you get with this sale is just the CD booklet holder with all the CD's there in tact and in numeral order. The box will not be included with the shipping. Also the sleeve let was cut out to only show the description and book cover.
ნაწარმოები, რომლის მიხედვითაც ლეგენდარული ფილმი “ნათლია” გადაიღეს, ნიუ - იორკში, იტალიურ ოჯახში დაბადებულ მარიო პიუზოს ეკუთვნის. ამ ნაწარმოებს კიდევ რამდენიმე რომანი მოჰყვა, თუმცა ყველაზე დიდი აღიარება მწერალს მოუტანა 1969 წელს გამოქვეყნებულმა რომანმა “ნათლია”, იტალიურ მაფიას საფუძვლებსა და კანონებზე, კორუფციაზე, ძალადობასა და კეთილშობილ განგსტერ დონ კორლეონეზე. 1970 - იან წლებში რომანი ბესტსელერად იქცა, 1972 წელს კი რეჟისორმა ფრენსის ფორდ კოპალამ ამავე სახელწოდების ლეგენდარული ფილმი გადაიღო.
With a high heart, a pony named Mustang and $7.07, Davie Shaw leaves home and steadfastly heads East.Ever alert for the promising fork in the road and the companion who looks like he might be good company, Davie crosses the whole USA from California to New York. Along the way Davie meets many interesting and curious people to whom he invariably turns a polite and interested The Old Guru, The man who lived in the exact middle of the United Sates. , Eunice Rill herpetologist.
«Կնքահայրը» վեպը համաշխարհային ճանաչում ունի։ Այն սովորական դետեկտիվ չէ։ Վեպը սոցիալական լուրջ հիմնավորում ունի։ Այստեղ ներկայացվում է 1920-30-ական թվականներին ԱՄՆ-ում կազմակերպված հանցագործության առաջացումը, որը հեղինակը դիտում է որպես օրինաչափ երևույթ, ինչո՞ւ և ինչպե՞ս են կազմակերպվել մաֆիաները, ինչպե՞ս է առաջացել նրանց կապը քաղաքական բոլոր շրջանակների hետ։
Celebrul autor si scenarist Mario Puzo, castigator a doua premii Oscar, s-a impus de-a lungul carierei sale literare prin romanele despre mafie, foarte apreciate de critici si de publicul cititor.Romanul Casino este o poveste in care actiunea se desfasoara in Las Vegas si Hollywood, in lumea fascinanta a jocurilor de noroc, hotelurilor de lux si industriei filmului, in care deseori legea se confunda cu crima organizata.Viata personajului principal, John Merlyn, pustiul Merlyn, se schimba dramatic dupa o partida de jocuri de noroc de la Hotelul Xanadu din Las Vegas, alaturi de Jordan Hamley si Cully Cross, pe care ii cunoaste in incinta hotelului. Dupa un castig urias, Jordan recurge la un gest surprinzator. Dupa acest incident, Merlyn se intoarce la New York.Crescut la un orfelinat, la varsta de 16 ani se inroleaza in armata pentru a lupta in cel de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial.Dupa razboi incepe sa scrie si reuseste sa publice un roman. Isi intemeiaza o familie, pe care apoi o paraseste. Isi gaseste o slujba ca functionar in cadrul serviciului administrativ al unitatilor de rezervisti unde este convins de un coleg corupt sa intre intr-o operatiune ilegala.Totul iese la iveala, iar Merlyn este anchetat pentru faptele sale. Cully ii vine in ajutor folosindu-se de influenta si relatiile sale. Ancheta se incheie in favoarea lui Merlyn, iar acesta obtine o noua slujba la o revista, unde il cunoaste pe celebrul scriitor Osano. Patrunde in industria filmului si intelege ca Hollywoodul este dominat de lupte pentru putere si goana dupa profit.
Russian Book. Antologiia. 384. 2016. Paperback.