Edward Falco

The Family Corleone Edward Falco

Publisher Marketing: New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny-17 years-old, impatient and reckless-wants something else: To follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the real family business. An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather, as well as introduce it to a whole new generation. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/25/2012 pg. 168 (EAN 9781611134483, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2011 pg. 88 (EAN 9780446574624, Hardcover) Library Journal 12/01/2011 pg. 88 (EAN 9780446574624, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 02/27/2012 pg. 61 (EAN 9780446574624, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2012 (EAN 9780446574624, Hardcover) Booklist 03/01/2012 pg. 48 (EAN 9780446574624, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 05/11/2012 pg. 76 (EAN 9780446574624, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Falco, Edward Edward Falco was born in Brooklyn and teaches at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia. He's the prize-winning author of Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories, along with two previous collections, Plato at Scratch Daniel's and Richard Sullivan Prize winner Acid, and a novel, Winter in Florida. Contributor Bio:  Puzo, Mario Mario Puzo was the author of the international bestseller The Godfather and cowrote the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning trio of films based on the book. Puzo's other books include The Last Don and Omerta, both New York Times bestsellers.