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Le Parrain
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Le Parrain, c'est l'évocation d'un monde souterrain qui sape les fondations de l'Amérique, d'une pègre redoutable que la société voudrait ignorer. C'est aussi le best-seller qui a inspiré l'un des plus grands films de l'histoire du cinéma.
New York, 1945. Vito Corleone, dit Don Corleone, a bâti sa puissance sur l'importation d'huile d'olive et fait aujourd'hui partie des cinq familles les plus puissantes de la ville. Il est le patriarche, l'un des chefs les plus respectés de la Mafia. Intimement liée aux affaires, la famille, d'origine sicilienne, est composée de sa femme, la mamma, sa fille Connie, ses trois fils – Sonny, Fredo et Michaël –, ainsi que son fils adoptif, Tom Hagen. Après la guerre, Michaël, soldat dans l'armée américaine, revient d'Europe pour le mariage de sa soeur ; l'occasion pour lui de présenter sa fiancée à la famille. Michaël a toujours été tenu à l'écart des affaires du clan, contrairement à Sonny et Fredo qui suivent fidèlement leur père dans son funeste sillon. Tout bascule le jour ou Vito refuse un trafic de drogue avec un mafieux appelé « le Turc ». Le Don est alors agressé et se retrouve à l'hôpital, entre la vie et la mort. La guerre entre les Corleone et les autres familles est ouverte. Michaël se sent alors obligé d'agir pour le bien des siens. De New York à Las Vegas, des somptueuses villas de Hollywood au maquis de Sicile, voici le portrait d'une nation gangrenée par ses syndicats du crime, sa guerre des gangs et ses puissances occultes.
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New York, 1945. Vito Corleone, dit Don Corleone, a bâti sa puissance sur l'importation d'huile d'olive et fait aujourd'hui partie des cinq familles les plus puissantes de la ville. Il est le patriarche, l'un des chefs les plus respectés de la Mafia. Intimement liée aux affaires, la famille, d'origine sicilienne, est composée de sa femme, la mamma, sa fille Connie, ses trois fils – Sonny, Fredo et Michaël –, ainsi que son fils adoptif, Tom Hagen. Après la guerre, Michaël, soldat dans l'armée américaine, revient d'Europe pour le mariage de sa soeur ; l'occasion pour lui de présenter sa fiancée à la famille. Michaël a toujours été tenu à l'écart des affaires du clan, contrairement à Sonny et Fredo qui suivent fidèlement leur père dans son funeste sillon. Tout bascule le jour ou Vito refuse un trafic de drogue avec un mafieux appelé « le Turc ». Le Don est alors agressé et se retrouve à l'hôpital, entre la vie et la mort. La guerre entre les Corleone et les autres familles est ouverte. Michaël se sent alors obligé d'agir pour le bien des siens. De New York à Las Vegas, des somptueuses villas de Hollywood au maquis de Sicile, voici le portrait d'une nation gangrenée par ses syndicats du crime, sa guerre des gangs et ses puissances occultes.
~laffont.fr
496 pages, Paperback
First published March 10,1969
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496 pages, Paperback
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April 12, 2002 by Robert Laffont
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9782221097793
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2221097793
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French
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Don Vito Corleone
In Mario Puzos novel, Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone crime family, the most powerful Mafia family in the New York City area. He is depicted as an ambitious Sicilian immigrant who moves to the Hells Kitchen area of west-central Manha...
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Michael Mike Corleone
Michael Corleone is a character in Mario Puzos novels, The Godfather and The Sicilian. He is also the main character of the Godfather film trilogy that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which h...
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Tom Hagen
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About the author
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Puzo was born in a poor family of Neapolitan immigrants living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Many of his books draw heavily on this heritage. After graduating from the City College of New York, he joined the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Due to his poor eyesight, the military did not let him undertake combat duties but made him a public relations officer stationed in Germany. In 1950, his first short story, The Last Christmas, was published in American Vanguard. After the war, he wrote his first book, The Dark Arena, which was published in 1955.
At periods in the 1950s and early 1960s, Puzo worked as a writer/editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company. Puzo, along with other writers like Bruce Jay Friedman, worked for the company line of men's magazines, pulp titles like Male, True Action, and Swank. Under the pseudonym Mario Cleri, Puzo wrote World War II adventure features for True Action.
Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather, was first published in 1969 after he had heard anecdotes about Mafia organizations during his time in pulp journalism. He later said in an interview with Larry King that his principal motivation was to make money. He had already, after all, written two books that had received great reviews, yet had not amounted to much. As a government clerk with five children, he was looking to write something that would appeal to the masses. With a number one bestseller for months on the New York Times Best Seller List, Mario Puzo had found his target audience. The book was later developed into the film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning three, including an Oscar for Puzo for Best Adapted Screenplay. Coppola and Puzo collaborated then to work on sequels to the original film, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III.
Puzo wrote the first draft of the script for the 1974 disaster film Earthquake, which he was unable to continue working on due to his commitment to The Godfather Part II. Puzo also co-wrote Richard Donner's Superman and the original draft for Superman II. He also collaborated on the stories for the 1982 film A Time to Die and the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club.
Puzo never saw the publication of his penultimate book, Omertà, but the manuscript was finished before his death, as was the manuscript for The Family. However, in a review originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that Omertà may have been completed by "some talentless hack." Siegel also acknowledges the temptation to "rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis -- that [Puzo] wrote it and it is terrible."
Puzo died of heart failure on July 2, 1999 at his home in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York. His family now lives in East Islip, New York.
At periods in the 1950s and early 1960s, Puzo worked as a writer/editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company. Puzo, along with other writers like Bruce Jay Friedman, worked for the company line of men's magazines, pulp titles like Male, True Action, and Swank. Under the pseudonym Mario Cleri, Puzo wrote World War II adventure features for True Action.
Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather, was first published in 1969 after he had heard anecdotes about Mafia organizations during his time in pulp journalism. He later said in an interview with Larry King that his principal motivation was to make money. He had already, after all, written two books that had received great reviews, yet had not amounted to much. As a government clerk with five children, he was looking to write something that would appeal to the masses. With a number one bestseller for months on the New York Times Best Seller List, Mario Puzo had found his target audience. The book was later developed into the film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning three, including an Oscar for Puzo for Best Adapted Screenplay. Coppola and Puzo collaborated then to work on sequels to the original film, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III.
Puzo wrote the first draft of the script for the 1974 disaster film Earthquake, which he was unable to continue working on due to his commitment to The Godfather Part II. Puzo also co-wrote Richard Donner's Superman and the original draft for Superman II. He also collaborated on the stories for the 1982 film A Time to Die and the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club.
Puzo never saw the publication of his penultimate book, Omertà, but the manuscript was finished before his death, as was the manuscript for The Family. However, in a review originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that Omertà may have been completed by "some talentless hack." Siegel also acknowledges the temptation to "rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis -- that [Puzo] wrote it and it is terrible."
Puzo died of heart failure on July 2, 1999 at his home in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York. His family now lives in East Islip, New York.
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