{"product_id":"the-godfather-by-mario-puzo-3598j","title":"The Godfather by Mario Puzo","description":"\u003cp\u003eTryant, blackmailer, racketeer, murder, his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather. A modern masterpiece, The Godfather is the epic story of organised crime in the 1940s. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking more than a quarter-century after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder and family values is a true classic.  Reviews  'As for fiction, there can only be one choice - The Godfather, The Times .'The Godfather, one of the most entertaining and absorbing popular novels of the postwar period... Puzo's masterpiece', Robert McCrum in the Observer  'As for fiction, there can only be one choice - The Godfather, The Times .'The Godfather, one of the most entertaining and absorbing popular novels of the postwar period... Puzo's masterpiece', Robert McCrum in the Observer  The deck's stacked against this audio adaptation of the novel that inspired one of the most acclaimed feature films of all time. The powerful visual imagery at the end of Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of Puzo's novel-the alternating between a baptism and coordinated hits on rival mob bosses-is so indelible that any other depiction must suffer in comparison. Hearing any narrator read that a character put three bullets in another's chest just can't hold a candle to seeing it, at least as Coppola filmed the scene. Ditto for the shocker when a certain animal head turns up in a certain character's bed. However, that's not to say that narrator Joe Mantegna's reading is at fault. Turning in compelling and nuanced performance, Mantegna's gravelly-voiced Don Corleone is close enough to Marlon Brando's not to jar, and the narrator (who appeared in The Godfather: Part III) also pulls off female voices effectively. More notably, despite his decades of voicing a parodistic mobster on The Simpsons, Mantegna's use of different accents and modes of speech insures that his characterizations never come across as stereotypical. A Signet paperback. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41843969228874,"sku":"3598j","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/3598j.jpg?v=1764510490","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-godfather-by-mario-puzo-3598j","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}