By Mario Puzo
After Mario Puzo wrote his the world over acclaimed The Godfather, he has usually been imitated yet by no means equaled. Puzo's vintage novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work--a lushly romantic, unforgettable story of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . .
The 12 months is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the tip of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to carry a tender Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano again with him to the United States. yet Guiliano is a guy entwined in a bloody net of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a contemporary day Robin Hood who has defied corruption--and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, within the land of mist-shrouded mountains and old ruins, Michael Corleone's destiny is entwined with the harmful legend of Salvatore Guiliano: warrior, lover, and the last word Siciliano.
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One always suspects that he must have knitted it himself. ' Vivien, smiling persistently despite the fact that neither man was now paying any attention to her, passed through the gallery towards her small office at the back. She always enjoyed this walk: the gallery was so cool, so pale, so translucent (the paintings seemed to glow on the light grey walls) that it was as if her own feelings were slowly being bleached out of her until she reached her desk as the efficient secretary of Mr Cumberland and Mr Maitland.
The old man quickly took the coin and held it aloft in his right hand as he gave the pamphlet to Philip. ' He took him over to the north porch, the light from the half-closed door illuminating the righthand side of his body, his creased neck, his old overcoat, and his trembling hand with the coin still in it. 'There,' he said, opening the door and pointing out into the street beyond, There's his house. ' Philip looked in the direction to which he was pointing, and could see what looked like a painted surface raised up beside the main road.
Slowly they approached the baptistery. 'He's all written down, he is. ' And in the gently moving light, stained with the colours of the high windows, the old man pored through some pamphlets which had been left for sale beside a 'World in Peril' poster and a scale model of the church itself. ' He held up a pamphlet with the title Thomas Chatterton: Son of Bristol. ' 'You give what you can. ' Philip searched frantically in the pockets of his jeans, and eventually came out with a pound coin. ' The old man quickly took the coin and held it aloft in his right hand as he gave the pamphlet to Philip.