The Family Corleone

Edward Falco

May 2012 · Random House

About this ebook

New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organisations will rise . . . and which will face a violent end.

For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. His youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation. His adopted son, Tom Hagen, is a college student; but he worries most about Sonny, his oldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny - seventeen years old, impatient, and reckless - wants something else: to follow in his father's footsteps, and become a part of the real family business.

An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, THE FAMILY CORLEONE carries on the legacy of The Godfather for a new generation.

Ratings and reviews

Tells the story of the consolidation of the 5 NY families, but does not match the back story of the original book particularly with regards to Sonny. Sonny comes across as stupid here, where in the original he is a highly competent leader with a short temper that sometimes gets the better of him. The writing quality is well below Mario Puzo levels.

Ive gotta say that it returns some memories of mario puzos books but at the same time i agree its not really an official part of his work

could I get a refund on this book?

About the author

Ed Falco is the author of three novels, four story collections, and numerous plays, poems, essays, and critical reviews. Among his many awards and honours are an NEA fiction fellowship and the Southern Review's Robert Penn Warren Prize. He is a professor of English at Virginia Tech, where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.