The classic mafia tale, reissued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of first publication.
Mario Puzo was born in New York and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University. His best-selling novel The Godfather was preceded by two critically acclaimed novels, The Dark Arena (1955) and The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965). In 1978 he published Fools Die, followed by The Sicilian (1984), The Fourth K (1991), and the second instalment in his Mafia trilogy, The Last Don (1996), which became an international bestseller. Mario Puzo also wrote many screenplays, including Earthquake, Superman, and all three Godfather films, for which he received two Academy Awards. He died in July 1999 at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of seventy-eight.
The novel merits more critical respect than it has traditionally
received ... Half a century on we can see The Godfather as
the seminal novel it was and, as does this volume, salute the
writer who wrote it. * The Times *
The narrative bowls along... to keep readers turning pages all the
way to an explosive showdown. * Daily Mail *
The Godfather, one of the most entertaining and absorbing
popular novels of the postwar period... Puzo's masterpiece. *
Observer *
A splendid and distinguished blood saga of the Cosa Nostra, the
American Mafia, and of the whirl created by five families of
mafiosi at war in New York. * Sunday Times *
A splendid and distinguished blood saga of the Cosa Nostra, the
American Mafia, and of the whirl created by five families of
mafiosi at war in New York. * New York Post *
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