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Fools Die
Fools Die
Author: Mario Puzo
Fools Die focuses dramatically on forty years in the life of an orphaned American boy named Merlyn who, in time, comes to understand how he relates to the magician of Arthurian legend.  His haphazard youth is spent outside the law, and only his overwhelming interest in writing and extraordinary success as an author save him from a life behi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780399122446
ISBN-10: 0399122443
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 572
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Publisher: Putnam
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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toni avatar reviewed Fools Die on + 351 more book reviews
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This is a great book - as good as The Godfather. This book confronts issues about the society and beliefs within 1950's America, friendships and revenge, power and wealth and most predominantly: self-preservation.

Synopsis (from B&N)
FOOLS DIE is a novel that only Mario Puzo could have written. Encompassing America's golden triangle of corruption - New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas. It plunges you into the electric excitement of luxurious gambling casinos - the heady arena for high rollers and big-time hustlers, scheming manipulators and fancy hookers - a world of greed, lust, violence, and betrayal, where men ruthlessly use their power, where women ravenously use their sex, where only the strongest survive and fools die...

"Master storytelling...sensational reading!" (Los Angeles Times)

"Hypnotic...written with unflagging vitality." (New York Times Book Review)
Biography
Lifelong New Yorker Mario Puzo drew upon figures in his Italian-American family to create the characters in his smash hit The Godfather in 1969; but he claimed never to have met a real-life mobster, and his detailed portrait of the Mafia world came entirely from diligent research.
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Corruption, gangsters, and all the familiar but interesting plots, that only the author of The Godfather, could write.


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