Measures 4-1/4" X 7", 256 pp -- written by Mario Puzo -- stated "March 1973"-- published by Fawcett Publications Inc. (CT), Fawcett Crest paperback #P1797.
Group 1-087
Multiple deep scratches & indentations across front cover -- plus wear & chipping to edges & corners, with creases, folds, browning pages, yellowing spine & covers, rub-wear & soiling, etc -- spine shows slight lean to right, with slight bowing & 1 top to bottom spine crease -- OVERALL CONDITION = Good Minus
Not simply an autobiography, THE GODFATHER PAPERS AND OTHER CONFESSIONS is a collection of miscellaneous essays and short fiction, plus a revealing disclosure of how the author's best known novel (but NOT, he believes, his BEST) reluctantly came about; as well as his background work with the movie's director FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA to develop a film about the Mafia, without using the term "Mafia"!
Contents:
Foreword
Choosing A Dream: Italians In Hell's Kitchen
A George Mandel "Plate In The Head" Story
The Making Of "THE GODFATHER"
How Crime Keeps America Healthy, Wealthy, Cleaner And More Beautiful
Writers, Talent, Money, And Class: An Irreverent Interview
Big Literary Gun Aims At Self And Misses
Generalissimo Mailer: Hero Of His Own Dispatches
A George Mandel "Plate In The Head" Story
First Sundays In Exile
Why Sally Rags Is A Winning Gambler
"I Hope To Break Even Because I Need The Money"
That's How It Used To Be. . .In Camelot
The Commonplace With Grandeur
A George Mandel "Plate In The Head" Story
A Modest Proposal
The Last Christmas
The Italians, American Style
The Money Revolution: Fight Poverty, Go Bankrupt
Davie Shaw's Friends
A George Mandel "Plate In The Head" Story
Confessions Of A Male Chauvinist
Notes From An Unsuccessful Writer's Diary
Postscript To The Making Of "THE GODFATHER"
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