- Paperback: 229 pages
- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0374289816
- ISBN-13: 978-0374289812
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.1 x 1.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,056,566 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Murder, the movies and mafia family values - in an exhilarating debut that has taken Europe by storm
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Metropolitan Catania, and Tony’s barbeques are a neighbourhood sensation. Each weekend the party girls rub shoulders with elegant Mafiosi – and no wonder, since Tony’s uncle Sal runs the local show. And so had the finger not pointed at two of Sal’s most trusted men, and at Nick Palumbo, Tony’s best friend, it would have been an ordinary murder. But it wasn’t, and Lou Sciortino, newly arrived from New York, finds himself on the trail. Gin and tonic in hand, negotiating hairdressers, directors, small shopkeepers, Sicilian wives, and far from his safe job laundering mob money at Starship Pictures, the life he finds in sunny Sicily is not the one his over-protective family had in mind. In a world where no one is truly anyone’s friend, killers have sidelines in amaretti, the nicest people can still bring on the apocalypse, and grandfathers are to be feared above all men – can the inimitable Lou solve the crime? Ottavio Cappellani’s exhilarating debut has taken Europe by storm: darkly funny and truly stylish, this is a page-turner that sets its sights on Italy’s biggest cliché and explodes it from every angle. ‘Cappellani’s Catania has the brutality of Quentin Tarantino and the trash of Pedro Almodovar’ Corriere della Sera ‘Brilliant dialogue . . . All the plot and rhythm of great cinema’ Vanity Fair ‘Finally the post-modern and metropolitan Sicily has found its ideal chronicler . . . A completely exhilarating story’ La Repubblica ‘A debut novel as sharp as a knife’ GQ
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Tries to be a Sicilian Elmore Leonard but doesn't make it, 16 Feb 2009
By Jeff - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Who Is Lou Sciortino?: A Novel about Murder, the Movies, and Mafia Family Values (Paperback)
This Sicilian novel has a wide array of over the top characters. The point of view shift swiftly from character to character forward in time. Although the characters are richly drawn, especially with their family histories, the plot moves like someone who has eaten too much pasta and Chianti at dinner and needs to take a nap.
Although the novel makes explicit comparisons to The Sopranos and its characters, I didn't buy it. The characters in the novel are much slower moving and far less competent in their practice of crime.
If you're looking for something in this vein, go read Charlie Stella. He shifts perspectives just as Cappellani does, but the plotting is much tighter and the irony is twice as thick.
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Okay read, different style of writing., 16 Mar 2010
By Smokey E - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Who Is Lou Sciortino?: A Novel about Murder, the Movies, and Mafia Family Values (Paperback)
I bought this as a 2 dollar book on clearance. I'm from an Italian family so thought it might be a somewhat fun read as a mafia novel. Overall it ends up being a descent book just takes a real long time to get into the good stuff. Also the writing style and names get kind-of confusing at first. If you really want to check it out I'd say go for it. If your looking for a great read keep looking.
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