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In the final installment of the saga of the Corleone crime family, New Orleans under-boss Carlo Tramonti is deported to Colombia and turns dangerously vengeful, triggering a series of events that change the course of American history.Tags
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I'm a sucker for the Godfather, so I loved it. But even if I weren't a sucker for the Godfather, I would have loved it. Fast paced writing, interesting story, lots of blood. What's not to love?
A satisfying ending to one of the greatest sagas of all time. Winegardner successfully ties in all the loose ends brought forth in his first sequel The Godfather Returns.
The Godfather, sequel 3
"..Winegardner continues to breathe new life into Mario Puzo's infamous Corleone family. Following the success of The Godfather Returns (2004), he reunites Puzo's immortal cast of characters in an all-new Cosa Nostra adventure. As world-weary Michael endeavors to remain in control of his tight-knit clan, he wrestles with a complexity of local and international issues and interests. Nick Gerasi, an old nemesis, resurfaces; a fellow don is kidnapped by government agents; the Kennedyesque president of the U.S and his attorney-general brother are attempting to exert their independence from the behind-the-scenes operators who orchestrated their rise to power; and Michael's dead brother, Fredo, keeps reappearing in the show more guise of a belated conscience.."
"-- What's the real story behind why Sonny Corleone brought Tom Hagen home to live with his family?
-- We know (in Godfather Part III) that Tom Hagen died, but nobody ever talks about it. What happened?
-- What did the Mafia -- and the Corleone Family -- have to do with the greatest mystery of the Twentieth Century: the possible conspiracy to assassinate the young, handsome president of the United States?
-- Whatever happened to Johnny Fontane, who's so compelling early in Puzo's novel but who all but disappears from view during the years of his greatest fame and fortune?
-- Whatever happened to Jack Woltz, in the years after he awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself trapped in his bed alongside a gigantic severed horse's head?
-- Whatever happened to Nick Geraci, the greatest earner the Corleone Family ever had, who goes into hiding at the end of The Godfather Returns, provoking Michael Corleone's reluctant return to New York and to his position as Godfather?
-- How, finally, is Michael Corleone's desire to take the Family business legit resolved? This is the biggest thing driving Michael Corleone, the thing he's yearning for, yet its resolution is never quite achieved in any of the other books or films." show less
"..Winegardner continues to breathe new life into Mario Puzo's infamous Corleone family. Following the success of The Godfather Returns (2004), he reunites Puzo's immortal cast of characters in an all-new Cosa Nostra adventure. As world-weary Michael endeavors to remain in control of his tight-knit clan, he wrestles with a complexity of local and international issues and interests. Nick Gerasi, an old nemesis, resurfaces; a fellow don is kidnapped by government agents; the Kennedyesque president of the U.S and his attorney-general brother are attempting to exert their independence from the behind-the-scenes operators who orchestrated their rise to power; and Michael's dead brother, Fredo, keeps reappearing in the show more guise of a belated conscience.."
"-- What's the real story behind why Sonny Corleone brought Tom Hagen home to live with his family?
-- We know (in Godfather Part III) that Tom Hagen died, but nobody ever talks about it. What happened?
-- What did the Mafia -- and the Corleone Family -- have to do with the greatest mystery of the Twentieth Century: the possible conspiracy to assassinate the young, handsome president of the United States?
-- Whatever happened to Johnny Fontane, who's so compelling early in Puzo's novel but who all but disappears from view during the years of his greatest fame and fortune?
-- Whatever happened to Jack Woltz, in the years after he awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself trapped in his bed alongside a gigantic severed horse's head?
-- Whatever happened to Nick Geraci, the greatest earner the Corleone Family ever had, who goes into hiding at the end of The Godfather Returns, provoking Michael Corleone's reluctant return to New York and to his position as Godfather?
-- How, finally, is Michael Corleone's desire to take the Family business legit resolved? This is the biggest thing driving Michael Corleone, the thing he's yearning for, yet its resolution is never quite achieved in any of the other books or films." show less
Too many words, not enough plot.
More of the same without a driving story.
OK, this I got a bit lazy and borrowed from the public library. Actually, I saw it on the shelf while looking for something else, and I figured I might as well borrow it and read it. Overall, not as good as the first one.
See my note on it from the blog:
[http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/07/booknote-godfathers-revenge.html]
See my note on it from the blog:
[http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/07/booknote-godfathers-revenge.html]
Godfather Returns, The - Book 3
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Mark Winegardner is the Burroway Professor of English at Florida State University.
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Mario Puzo, best known as the author of The Godfather, was born on October 15, 1920 in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City. He served in the U. S. Army during World War II, and when he returned attended New York's School for Social Research and Columbia University. He wrote pulp stories and edited Male magazine before publishing his first show more novel, The Dark Arena (1955). His works were well-received critically, but failed to generate much revenue until he published his most notable work, The Godfather, which was ultimately made into a trilogy of award-winning movies. Puzo continued writing novels, and his final work, Omerta, was finished not long before his death. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972, and 1974. Puzo died on July 2, 1999 in Bay Shore, Long Island. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Important places*
- USA
- Epigraph
- Men must either be flattered or crushed, for they will revenge themselves for slight wrongs, while grave ones they cannot. The injury, therefore, that you do a man should be such that you need not fear for revenge. - Machiave... (show all)lli, The Prince
- Dedication
- Ancora una volta, alla mia famiglia.
- First words
- Dressed in a tuxedo and his ratty old fishing hat, Fredo Corleone, who was dead, stood before his brother Michael in the middle of the dark cobblestone street in Hell's Kitchen where they'd lived as children, a fishing rod in... (show all) one hand and a naked woman on his arm.
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