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...

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys

“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—Booklist

Mario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is the ultimate

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Don Raymonde Aprile, retired after a long career of organized crime, is assassinated by a pair of hit men who believe there is no one left to seek revenge, but they did not count on the Don's adopted "nephew" from Sicily, a child raised unlike Aprile's own three children to take over the crime family.

"A special deluxe hardcover edition of The Godfather-the unforgettable saga of an American crime family that became a #1 bestseller and global phenomenon"--

The complete saga of the Mafia Corleone family, from Don Corleone's childhood in Sicily, his son Michael Corleone's rise to power and finally the struggle to succeed him. Contains, as originally released, the 3 Godfather films.

As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him.

A portait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, balancing the story between the Corleones' family life and the crime business in which they are engaged.