The Family by Mario Puzo & completed by Carol Gino [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2001 * Regan

The Family by Mario Puzo & completed by Carol Gino 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2001] REGAN BOOKS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket shows mild shelf and edge wear but is otherwise excellent; now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself is in beautiful shape; a few marks to boards.  Reads like new.

Mario Puzo first answered the question 'What is a family?' with the creation of the Corleones in his landmark best seller The Godfather. Now, 30 years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history, the Borgias.

In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to 15th century Rome, and reveals to us the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: simple, unloved Jofre; irascible, heartless Juan; beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration. Their stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage.

A labor of love two decades in the making, The Family marks the final triumph of one of the greatest storytellers of our time.