The Family [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Puzo, Mario; Gino, Carol (completed by)
Verkäufer Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 20. März 2019
Verkäufer Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 20. März 2019
Beschreibung
Fine condition black boards with gold spine lettering, contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Prologue; Epilogue; and Afterword by Carol Gino. The first title page contains a small former owner's blue pen initials. Also includes a facsimile author signature (Mario Puzo's) and inscription plus map illustrated front and rear endpapers consisting of Italy in the 15th Century and The Papal States. "Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo's best." - Nicholas Pileggi ".Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject [the family], in a masterpiece that crowns his remarkable career: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias. In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome and reveals the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope ALexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites for power, luxury, and women were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: the simple, unloved Jofre; the irascible, heartless Juan; the beautiful, storng-willed Lucrezia; and the passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration. Their intermingled stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage. And their time, place and characters are recaptured in all their earthy, human grandeur, with the unerring insight and compassion that were Mario Puzo's great gifts. A labor of love two decades in the making, The Family marks the final triumph of one of the greatest storytellers of our time." - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001361
Bibliografische Details
Titel: The Family [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Verlag: ReganBooks, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine
Auflage: 1st Edition
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