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    Honor Thy Father

    By Gay Talese

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    A classic masterwork newly updated.

    The electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime family.

    On New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported by the police as dead on the following morning. More than a year later, Bonanno mysteriously reappeared, setting off a bloody mob feud that came to be known as the “Banana War.”

    In this monumental work—packed with intimate details and brilliant reporting—bestselling author Gay Talese first brought to the American consciousness a world and a life previously known to only a few. No other book has done more to acquaint readers with the secrets, structure, wars, power plays, family lives, and fascinating, frightening personalities of the Mafia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 16, 2009
    ISBN9780061872006
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    Gay Talese

    GAY TALESE was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called “The New Journalism.” He spent his early career at the New York Times, then moved to Esquire, where he produced some of the most celebrated magazine pieces ever written, including “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” which Vanity Fair has called “the greatest literary-nonfiction story of the twentieth century.” His books include The Kingdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Unto the Sons, and The Voyeur’s Motel. Born in Ocean City, New Jersey, in 1932, Talese lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City. They have two daughters, Pamela and Catherine.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting look at life in a crime family in the 1960s, albeit filtered through its subject, who has reasons to be less than honest. One of the better mafia novels I've read (others I've read so far include "Donnie Brasco," which was on a par with this, and "Goodfellas," which wasn't as interesting. That's probably due mostly to its subjects, who even the author admits are the last dregs of mob culture and not exactly the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.