现年42岁的马克·瓦恩加德纳曾是美国佛罗里达州大学创作班的主任。他的小说包括《弯河在烧》和《沙地先知》,在犯罪题材创作方面颇获认可。
THE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIMEThirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo’s great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner continues the story–the years not covered in Puzo’s bestselling book or in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic films. It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York’s crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and cunning as Michael. Their personal cold war will run from 1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of America’s most powerful criminals and their loved ones, including Tom Hagen, the Corleone Family’s lawyer and consigliere, who embarks on a political career in Nevada while trying to protect his brother;Francesca Corleone, daughter of Michael’s late brother Sonny, who is suddenly learning her family’s true history and faces a difficult choice;Don Louie Russo, head of the Chicago mob, who plays dumb but has wily ambitions for muscling in on the Corleones’ territory;Peter Clemenza, the stalwart Corleone underboss, who knows more Family secrets than almost anyone;Ambassador M. Corbett Shea, a former Prohibition-era bootlegger and business ally of the Corleones’, who wants to get his son elected to the presidency–and needs some help from his old friends;Johnny Fontane, the world’s greatest saloon singer, who ascends to new heights as a recording artist, cozying up to Washington’s power elite and maintaining a precarious relationship with notorious underworld figures;Kay Adams Corleone, who finally discovers the truth about her husband, Michael–and must decide what it means for their marriage and their children andFredo Corleone, whose death has never been fully explained until now, and whose betrayal of the Family was part of a larger and more sinister chain of events.Sweeping from New York and Washington to Las Vegas and Cuba, The Godfather Returns is the spellbinding story of America’s criminal underworld at mid-century and its intersection with the political, legal, and entertainment empires. Mark Winegardner brings an original voice and vision to Mario Puzo’s mythic characters while creating several equally unforgettable characters of his own. The Godfather Returns stands on its own as a triumph–in a tale about what we love, yearn for, and sometimes have reason to fear . . . family.From the Hardcover edition.
之前看《博客天下》看到黄海波喜欢的一本书——就是它,然后我也为了看这本书而把电影般的三部曲重新温习了一遍。 真本书,看得有点蛋疼不说假话。迈克尔还是一如既往地厉害,而他的,据说是很厉害的敌人——杰拉奇,一开始以为他会搞定麦克,但最后,呵呵,完败。。连根毛...
评分翻译的也太烂了 什么玩意呀 呀呀个呸的 本来2就是续貂之作,在经过这九流的翻译,信达雅就别说了,咱能把舌头捋顺了么!神马玩意啊翻译的!! 毫无诚意,根本就没有一点点想翻译好的努力都!!后几张开始从句还扔在后面,生硬,晦涩。哎...无语了!!
评分《教父》(The God Father)这本书我了好几遍,包括英文版的。我唯一看过多遍的英文书就是这本了,以至于那本书已经很破烂惨不忍睹了。后来在地坛书市的时候,我又买了本新的。 这本书我很怀疑我以前看过,因为情节总是觉得很熟悉,但是又不敢确定自己看过,结果又从头到...
评分第一次在家门口的新华书店看到这么一本书,兴奋得不得了。大红色的封面,印着个两眼深邃的沉思者,坐在一张老板椅上,冷眼旁观。左上角有个熟悉的Logo,一只大手,牵着个提线木偶,代替木偶的东西是"Godfather"。用黑色的字体印着令人抓狂的名字《教父归来》(The Godfather Ret...
评分比起电影的经典,书显得是如此的苍白无力,平庸无奇。由于是电影首先上映,之后由于电影的火爆,才又根据电影,扩充成同名书籍。所以,整体感不强,有些细节太过于繁琐,没有了第一本《教父》的那种一气呵成的感觉,更没有《教父》中那种鲜活的人物描写和关系反映。 尽管如此,...
改写的比较差的外传,整体风格不忍直视,和Puzo塑造出来的完全不是一个世界
评分改写的比较差的外传,整体风格不忍直视,和Puzo塑造出来的完全不是一个世界
评分改写的比较差的外传,整体风格不忍直视,和Puzo塑造出来的完全不是一个世界
评分改写的比较差的外传,整体风格不忍直视,和Puzo塑造出来的完全不是一个世界
评分改写的比较差的外传,整体风格不忍直视,和Puzo塑造出来的完全不是一个世界
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