Mario Puzo

Broschiertes Buch

The Dark Arena

Beschreibung

AN ASTOUNDING STORY OF CORRUPTION AND BETRAYAL. Hardened by the brutality and desceration of three long years of war, Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. Mosca now faces a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision - between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death...

Autor

Mario Puzo was born in New York and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University. His best-selling novel The Godfather was preceded by two critically acclaimed novels, The Dark Arena (1955) and The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965). In 1978 he published Fools Die, followed by The Sicilian (1984), The Fourth K (1991), and the second instalment in his Mafia trilogy, The Last Don (1996), which became an international bestseller. Mario Puzo also wrote many screenplays, including Earthquake, Superman, and all three Godfather films, for which he received two Academy Awards. He died in July 1999 at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of seventy-eight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornerstone
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9780099557586
• ISBN-10: 0099557584
• Artikelnr.: 35247999