Family Corleone

Key Features

• The Family Corleone written by award-winning author Ed Falco will be the prequel to The Godfather, and is based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo.
• Perfect for fans of The Godfather films/books and fans of The Sopranos/Boardwalk Empire.
• 2012 will be the 40th Anniversary of the first Godfather film.
• The Godfather has sold over 21 million copies worldwide.

About the Book: The Family Corleone

Based on a screenplay by Mario Puzo, award-winning author Ed Falco's thrilling, all-new prequel to The Godfather continues the saga of the Corleone family.

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; and 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.

About the Author: Ed Falco

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 fictionfellowship and the Southern Review's Robert Penn Warren Prize. He is a professor ofEnglish at Virginia Tech, where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing..