Mario Puzo

The Godfather

£105

Illustrated By Robert Carter

Introduced By Jonathan Freedland

Mario Puzo’s brilliant and brutal story of Mafia feuds and retribution in post-war New York is published in a sensational new illustrated Folio Society edition, introduced by Jonathan Freedland.

The Godfather

£105
Book Details
 
Presentation Box & BindingBound in screen-printed cloth
Pictorial slipcase
Coloured tops
Ribbon marker
Dimensions10 inches x 6¾ inches
FontSet in Bembo with Trajan as display
Pages480 pages
AuthorMario Puzo
Illustrated ByRobert Carter
IllustrationFrontispiece plus 11 colour illustrations, two of which are double-page spreads
Decorative part titles
Printed 2 colour throughout in black and red
Publication Date16/09/2020
Editor's Notes
 
One of the best-selling books of all time, it is almost impossible to exaggerate the influence that Mario Puzo’s genre-defining novel has had on popular culture since its publication in 1969. From Francis Ford Coppola’s phenomenally successful film trilogy and a slew of deferential movies and television series, to gangland parlance and schoolyard banter, its legacy is multiple and global. This glorious new edition is packed with carefully considered design details that pay homage to Puzo’s epic story and its era. From the bleeding upside-down New York skyline on the binding to the series of dramatic tableaux and portraits by award-winning illustrator Robert Carter, and Jonathan Freedland’s new introduction, this is the edition that every Godfather aficionado has been waiting for.

About the Illustrator

Robert Carter

Robert Carter (a.k.a. Cracked Hat) has been a professional illustrator since 2002. Born in St Albans, England, he moved to Ontario, Canada, at an early age, where he went on to study art and illustration at Sheridan College’s prestigious Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. With a background in traditional oil painting, Carter applies these skills in the digital realm: digital painting is now his preferred working method. Carter has received the 2019 Patrick Nagel Award of Excellence from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and a Silver for Best in Illustration at the 2018 National Magazine Awards, and he was one of Creative Quarterly’s Best 100 of 2018, among other accolades. His work regularly appears in illustration annuals including Communication Arts, Applied Arts, 3x3 and Spectrum. Carter now lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.

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About the Illustrator

Robert Carter

Robert Carter (a.k.a. Cracked Hat) has been a professional illustrator since 2002. Born in St Albans, England, he moved to Ontario, Canada, at an early age, where he went on to study art and illustration at Sheridan College’s prestigious Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. With a background in traditional oil painting, Carter applies these skills in the digital realm: digital painting is now his preferred working method. Carter has received the 2019 Patrick Nagel Award of Excellence from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and a Silver for Best in Illustration at the 2018 National Magazine Awards, and he was one of Creative Quarterly’s Best 100 of 2018, among other accolades. His work regularly appears in illustration annuals including Communication Arts, Applied Arts, 3x3 and Spectrum. Carter now lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.

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About the Illustrator

Robert Carter

Robert Carter (a.k.a. Cracked Hat) has been a professional illustrator since 2002. Born in St Albans, England, he moved to Ontario, Canada, at an early age, where he went on to study art and illustration at Sheridan College’s prestigious Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. With a background in traditional oil painting, Carter applies these skills in the digital realm: digital painting is now his preferred working method. Carter has received the 2019 Patrick Nagel Award of Excellence from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and a Silver for Best in Illustration at the 2018 National Magazine Awards, and he was one of Creative Quarterly’s Best 100 of 2018, among other accolades. His work regularly appears in illustration annuals including Communication Arts, Applied Arts, 3x3 and Spectrum. Carter now lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.

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About the Illustrator

Robert Carter

Robert Carter (a.k.a. Cracked Hat) has been a professional illustrator since 2002. Born in St Albans, England, he moved to Ontario, Canada, at an early age, where he went on to study art and illustration at Sheridan College’s prestigious Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. With a background in traditional oil painting, Carter applies these skills in the digital realm: digital painting is now his preferred working method. Carter has received the 2019 Patrick Nagel Award of Excellence from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and a Silver for Best in Illustration at the 2018 National Magazine Awards, and he was one of Creative Quarterly’s Best 100 of 2018, among other accolades. His work regularly appears in illustration annuals including Communication Arts, Applied Arts, 3x3 and Spectrum. Carter now lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.

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About the Illustrator

Robert Carter

Robert Carter (a.k.a. Cracked Hat) has been a professional illustrator since 2002. Born in St Albans, England, he moved to Ontario, Canada, at an early age, where he went on to study art and illustration at Sheridan College’s prestigious Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. With a background in traditional oil painting, Carter applies these skills in the digital realm: digital painting is now his preferred working method. Carter has received the 2019 Patrick Nagel Award of Excellence from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and a Silver for Best in Illustration at the 2018 National Magazine Awards, and he was one of Creative Quarterly’s Best 100 of 2018, among other accolades. His work regularly appears in illustration annuals including Communication Arts, Applied Arts, 3x3 and Spectrum. Carter now lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.

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About the Illustrator

Robert Carter

Robert Carter (a.k.a. Cracked Hat) has been a professional illustrator since 2002. Born in St Albans, England, he moved to Ontario, Canada, at an early age, where he went on to study art and illustration at Sheridan College’s prestigious Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. With a background in traditional oil painting, Carter applies these skills in the digital realm: digital painting is now his preferred working method. Carter has received the 2019 Patrick Nagel Award of Excellence from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and a Silver for Best in Illustration at the 2018 National Magazine Awards, and he was one of Creative Quarterly’s Best 100 of 2018, among other accolades. His work regularly appears in illustration annuals including Communication Arts, Applied Arts, 3x3 and Spectrum. Carter now lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Mario Gianluigi Puzo was born in 1920 in Manhattan into a poor family who had emigrated from Campania, Italy. After military service in Germany during the Second World War, he studied at the New School for Social Research and at Columbia University in New York, and wrote stories for men’s pulp magazines. His first two novels (published in 1955 and 1965) achieved critical acclaim but not financial success, and Puzo wanted to write something with popular appeal in order to support his family of five children. The result was The Godfather (1969), which sold 21 million copies worldwide. Together with its sequels, The Sicilian(1984) and Omertà (2000), The Godfather redefined the gangster genre and introduced terms like omertà and cosa nostra to a mass readership, although Puzo always insisted that he wrote ‘entirely from research’ and had no personal links to the Mafia. He later wrote the screenplays for the three Godfather movies, for which he won two Academy Awards. Puzo’s final work, The Family, was completed by his companion Carol Gino and published posthumously in 2001. Its subject was the notorious Borgias, ‘the original crime family’ who had provided inspiration for many ideas in his original Mafia novels.

Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, novelist and broadcaster. He has been a columnist for the Guardian since 1997 and was previously the paper’s Washington correspondent. He is also the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series The Long View, as well as contributing regularly to a range of US publications, including the New York Review of Books. In 2014 he was awarded the Orwell Special Prize for journalism. He is the author of 11 books, nine of them best-selling thrillers under the name Sam Bourne. The latest is To Kill a Man (Quercus, 2020).