Mario Puzo: The Fortunate Pilgrim, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Fortunate Pilgrim
- A Novel
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- Publisher:
- Random House, 09/2004
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780345476722
- Item number:
- 2187040
- Volume:
- 306 Pages
- Weight:
- 150 g
- Format:
- 174 x 106 mm
- Thickness:
- 23 mm
- Release date:
- 28.9.2004
- Series:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Note
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Blurb
FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GODFATHER - "A classic... The novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage." - New York Times Book Review
Described by the author as his "best and most literary book." 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, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.
The book's hero, Lucia Santa, is an incredibly captivating character and based on Puzo's very own mother - he describes, "her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family and for life itself, qualities not valued in women at the time."
Biography
Mario Puzo wurde 1920 als Sohn italienischer Einwanderer in New York City geboren. Seine erste Kurzgeschichte erschien 1950 und 1955 veröffentlichte er seinen ersten Roman "Die dunkle Arena". Mit "Mamma Lucia" gelang ihm 1965 der große Durchbruch. Ein internationaler Bestseller wurde "Der Pate", der 1969 erschien und von Francis Ford Coppola in zwei Teilen verfilmt wurde. "Der letzte Pate" erschien 1996 und wurde für das Fernsehen in einer mehrteiligen Serie verfilmt. Mario Puzo verstarb im Juli 1999 auf Long Island.
