The Fortunate Pilgrim

The Fortunate Pilgrim

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A CLASSIC TALE OF THE LOVES, CRIMES AND STRUGGLES CONFRONTED BY ONE FAMILY OF IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY.From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, Lucia Santa – wife, widow and mother of two families – must steer them through the Depression and the early years of war as they adapt to life in a strange land. However, she cannot prevent the conflict between Italian and American values – nor the violence and bloodshed which must surely follow…

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Weight 0.227 kg
Dimensions 1.9 × 12.9 × 19.6 cm
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320
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Year Published

2012-7-5
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099557592
About The Author

Mario Puzo was born in New York. He is the author of the bestselling novel The Godfather and many other acclaimed novels. Puzo also wrote many screenplays, including those for the three Godfather movies, for which he won two academy awards. He died at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of seventy-eight.

Puzo has written a chronicle of Italian immigrant life which is a small classic … The novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights and its mixture of tenderness and rage

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