Most Popular Books by Ed Falco

Recently, Grand Central Publishing announced plans for a prequal to Mario Puzo''s The Godfather, to be written by our very own Ed Falco - of whom the New York Times Book Review noted, "There is in Mr. Falco''s fiction a little of Raymond Carver''s sensitivity to the menace of the everyday, and a lot of Andre Dubus''s sturdy empathy with his characters'' failings and regrets." The Family Corleone will hit bookstores everywhere in May - but you don''t need to wait that long to read Falco and discover why he is such an obviously perfect choice for the Corleone family. You can read excerpts now from the "compelling," "vivid," "intense," and "brilliant" books of master storyteller, Ed Falco. This sampler includes excerpts from: SAINT JOHN OF THE FIVE BORUOUGHS - a beautifully turned, stunning and layered novel about the effects of violence, abandonment, and the nature of redemption. Edward Falco once again proves to be a master of urgency and suspense, of events careening out of control, as he brilliantly explores why we make the choices we make - both the ones that threaten to destroy our lives, and those choices that might save us. WOLF POINT - a taut, dramatic literary thriller that examines betrayal, trust and forgiveness. Driven as much by its sizzling story as by it razor-sharp prose, Wolf Point delivers the powerful tale of a man who realizes, perhaps too late, that he actually has something to live for. Edward Falco brings stunning emotional depth and tense action to unforgettable characters as they journey toward places where human illusions fail and they must face their hidden selves. SABBATH NIGHT IN THE CHURCH OF THE PIRANHA - for some years now, Ed Falco has quietly established his place among the absolute best American storytellers. Falco''s stories are dangerous as a high-wire act without a net, filled with dramatic action and peopled with believable characters challenged by events into making risky moral choices, so emotionally true that the readers will carry them around for a long time. The decisions Falco''s characters make reveal their bonds, the set of their hearts, and the harsh nature of the world we all live in today.

New York, 1933. The crime families have prospered in the Depression, but with the coming end of Prohibition a battle is looming... one which will determine which organizations will rise, and which will face a violent end. Vito Corleone pushes his oldest child, teenaged Sonny, to be a businessman. But Sonny-- impatient and reckless-- wants to become a part of the real family business.

Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a 23-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, and Lucky Luciano. Tagged “Mad Dog Coll” after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botched assassination attempt, Coll was the subject of a shoot-to-kill order issued by New York City Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, a $50,000 bounty offered by Dutch Shultz and Owen Madden, and $30,000 in reward money from by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the city’s newspapers. Loretto and Vince are bound to each other by years spent in an orphanage and on the streets, but in the summer of 1931, with Loretto in love with newly-divorced Gina Baronti, and Vince in thrall to the beautiful Lottie Kriesberger, their world of tough guys in tough times is hurtling toward disaster, and Loretto finds himself faced with impossible choices.

In Wolf Moon Blood Moon, Ed Falco considers love and the loss of love, what we have today and what we remember of yesterday, the promise of youth and the disappointments and pleasures of aging. By turns whimsical, meditative, and poignant, these poems examine the joys and sorrows of living. The first section offers a meditation on loss, as the author explores bereavements both personal and remote. From an elderly mother and her stroke-impaired son struggling to have a simple conversation, to a man coping with the breakup of his marriage, to strangers caught in the public tragedies of a flood or an act of mass violence, these are poems acknowledging that loss is inevitable, infused with grief, and borne with courage. The second section explores the turbulence, sensuality, and mysteries within a particular life. Speakers in these poems contemplate aging while on their way to see a Broadway play, recall a father’s violence and a mother’s selflessness, and explore the complexity of a world that seems impossible to comprehend. Together, the two sections suggest a poet looking back in contemplation.

Tom “T” Walker, a 57-year-old businessman, knows better than to pick up a beautiful young woman hitchhiking with her dangerous-looking boyfriend, but he stops for them anyway. He’s been living alone, his life ruinously off course, in such utter isolation from everyone he has ever loved that he welcomes the company and the excitement. But as T finds himself pulled into the chaos of their world in a way he will barely survive, he comes to see his personal history and experiences in an altered and troubling light. Edward Falco brings stunning emotional depth and tense action to unforgettable characters as they journey through the mundane world to places where illusions fail and they must face their hidden selves.

For a long time now, Edward Falco has quietly established his place among the absolute best American storytellers. Those who haven’t yet read him don’t want to miss this chance. That’s why we’re so excited to offer the very best of his work, gathered together for the first time, to a wider readership. Falco’s stories are unforgettable, dangerous as a high-wire act without a net, filled with dramatic action, and peopled with believable characters challenged by events into making risky moral choices, so emotionally true that readers will carry them around for a long time. His prose is tense, sharp, and beautifully, wonderfully rich. In story after story, Falco’s characters find the comfortable order of their lives ambushed by an upswelling of dark forces beyond their control. In order to protect the lives of family—lovers, wives, and especially children—from a catastrophe, they often must summon up the personal courage to climb back from their own monsters, to set aside old, private scars. The decisions they make reveal their bonds, the set of their hearts, and the harsh nature of the culture we all live in today. If someone out there could write the contemporary counterpart to Flannery O’Conoor’s classic “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” it would be Falco. His are good, old-fashioned, hard-to-find stories set way out there on the edge.

When 22-year-old Avery Walker, a senior at Penn State, meets Grant Danko, a 37-year-old performance artist from Brooklyn whose stage name is Saint John of the Five Boroughs, her life changes radically as she leaves college to live with Grant in Brooklyn and pursue a life as an artist. Worried about Avery, her mother, Kate, and her aunt, Lindsey, and Lindsey’s husband, Hank, travel to Brooklyn, where they all face a crisis of their own and make life-altering choices. Grant is an angry guy with a curiously attractive personality and a coterie of bright, artistic friends. He’s used his good looks and his accomplishments, and the accomplishments of those friends, to get by while he works hauling stolen goods for his gangster uncle. He carries dark secrets that have caused his life to go off the rails. Grant is about as lost as a man can get, adept at making wrong choices. But when he finally faces his explosive moment of truth, something extraordinary happens. Saint John of the Five Boroughs is beautifully turned—a stunning and layered novel about the effects of violence, both personal and cultural, on its characters’ lives. It’s about the way violence twists character, but also about the possibilities for redemption and change, for achieving a kind of personal grace. Edward Falco once again proves to be a master of urgency and suspense, of events careening out of control, as he brilliantly explores why we make the choices we make—both the ones that threaten to destroy our lives, and those choices that might save us.

From discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco’s X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a speaker identified only as X reviews personal history and relationships, speculating, pondering, and questioning in the face of a baffling universe. Peppered between the X poems, artists as varied as Artemisia Gentileschi, Frank O’Connor, and Nick Cave surface, usually in poems posing as essays about their art. Other poems range from explorations of cultural perspective, as in “A Few Words to a Young American Killed in the Tet Offensive,” where a war resister addresses a young man of his generation who died in Vietnam, to the often playful “An Alphabet of Things.” Throughout, Falco’s poems speculate on matters of life and faith, intensified by an awareness of death.

Nova York, 1933. Enquanto os Estados Unidos afundam na Grande Depressão, as associações criminosas prosperam com a venda de álcool e outros negócios escusos. Porém, percebendo a proximidade do fim da Lei Seca, uma guerra entre as famílias ligadas à máfia é inevitável, iniciada pela poderosa família de Guiseppe Mariposa, o que irá determinar qual organização ascenderá e qual será eliminada. Nesse cenário, Vito Corleone busca o melhor para sua família, distanciando-a de suas atividades, mas seu filho mais velho Sonny não está inclinado a se afastar e seu filho adotivo Tom Hagen parece estar cada vez mais envolvido. Então resta ao justo e implacável Don garantir que o legado dos Corleones seja mantido.

Gudfadern är tidernas främsta maffiaskildring. Familjen Corleone bygger på ett manus Mario Puzo skrev, omarbetat till bok av Ed Falco. New York, 1933. Staden och nationen är mitt inne i den stora depressionen. De stora maffiafamiljernas affärer i New York har blomstrat under denna tid. Men slutet av spritförbudet väntar, och med det en kamp som kommer att avgöra flera av de stora familjernas öden. För Vito Corleone är inget viktigare än hans familjs framtid. Hans yngsta barn, Michael, Fredo och Connie, går i skolan, omedvetna om sin fars verkliga yrke. Familjens adopterade son Tom Hagen går på college. Det barn som oroar honom mest är äldste sonen Sonny. Vito försöker övertyga Sonny att bli en seriös affärsman. Den otålige och hänsynslöse 17-åringen har andra planer: han vill följa i sin fars fotspår och bli en del av det verkliga familjeföretaget. En spännande roman om traditioner och våld, lojalitet och svek. Familjen Corleone är en bok för de legioner av fans som aldrig kan få nog av Gudfadern och den legendariska maffiafamiljen.

Nueva York, 1933. La ciudad y la nación están sumidas en la Gran Depresión. Las familias del crimen han prosperado durante los últimos años, pero al acercarse el fin de la Prohibición, se aproxima una guerra que determinará cuales organizaciones...

Tác phẩm Bước Đường Trở Thành Bố Già Corleone, được viết theo chính đề cương của Mario Puzo. Với ngòi bút tài hoa của Ed Falco, một tác giả từng đoạt nhiều giải văn học của Mỹ, tác phẩm Bước Đường Trở Thnh Bố Già Corleone tái hiện những nhân vật từng lôi cuốn người hâm mộ qua bao thập kỷ, kể lại câu chuyện chưa được biết về chặng đường mà Vito Corleone đã “vào sanh ra tử ” để trở thành Ông Trùm Corleone quyền lực hùng mạnh mà chúng ta biết từ quyển Bố già (The Godfather)... Bước Đường Trở Thành Bố Già Corleone – một quyển truyện phản ánh sinh động bối cảnh xã hội Mỹ lúc suy thoái với hổ lốn băng đảng, phơi bày mưu ma chước quỷ tàn độc của giới giang hồ, kích động về truyền thống và bạo lực, về lòng trung thành và sự phản bội.... Bước Đường Trở Thành Bố Già Corleone, đã dựng lên một thế hệ mới cầm đầu băng đảng trong giới giang hồ và trở thành Bố già...1 quyển tiểu thuyết mà bất kỳ người nào đã đọc quyển Bố già đều muốn đọc, không thể bỏ qua...

Nueva York, 1933. La ciudad y la nación se hunden en los abismos de la Gran Depresión. Las familias del crimen han prosperado. Con la llegada del fin de la Ley Seca, comienza una batalla para determinar qué organizaciones dominarán y cuáles enfrentarán un final violento. Para Vito Corleone, nada es más importante que el futuro de los suyos. Mientras sus hijos Michael, Fredo y Connie van a la escuela, al margen de las verdaderas actividades de su padre, y su hijo adoptivo Tom Hagen estudia en la universidad, su gran preocupación es Sonny. Vito impulsa a su hijo mayor a convertirse en un respetable empresario.Pero con la impaciencia y la temeridad de sus diecisiete años, Sonny quiere algo diferente: seguir las huellas de su padre en los negocios de la familia. Tradición y violencia, lealtad y traición, odios y amores campean en las páginas de esta novela magnética. Precuela de El Padrino, Los Corleone atrapará a las legiones de fanáticos de Mario Puzo y convocará a nuevas generaciones de lectores a la inigualable saga sobre la mafia.

Set in the North Georgia mountains, in the fictional city of Redvale, Transcendent Gardening is the story of Angel Maso, a gardener and would-be playwright, whose life has been quietly unraveling ever since his wife, Dolores, aka Doll Maso, divorced him. Doll, who continues to live in Redvale, is happy and successful and well-adjusted in her new life. Their daughter, Claire, is also successful, wildly so, as a social media entrepreneur. Angel, however, has been struggling for years, eking out a livelihood as a gardener and part-time poets-in-the-schools teacher-and when all that falls apart, so does Angel, with consequences that shake both the city of Redvale and the nation. ufeffufeffADVANCE PRAISE "Transcendent Gardening is a master class in character and motive, and Ed Falco is an absolute poet of human frailty and calamity. He finds wonder even in the deepest pain. This novel is sometimes dark, often funny, and always wise. I couldn''t put it down." -Alyson Hagy, author of Scribe "In Transcendent Gardening, Ed Falco is processing the collective trauma of gun violence in America. This is urgent, compelling reading." -Julianna Baggot, author of Harriet Wolf''s Seventh Book of Wonders "Ed Falco knows how we all hurt, how we all deceive ourselves, most of all how the mechanisms of the mind can tragically misfire. Transcendent Gardening is terrifying." -Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk

Volume 12 of the Heavy Feather Review literary annual. Featuring art from Russell Evans and anti-comics by Tex Gresham. Fiction by Tony Burgess, Christian TeBordo, Z.Z. Boone, Divya Maniar, David Leo Rice, and Ed Falco. Poetry by Anthony Robinson, Olena Jennings, Louis Armand, Sean Singer, Joe Milazzo, and Evan Williams. The 2021 Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Memorial Fellowship Winners. And much more.

De maffiafamilie Corleone strijdt in de jaren dertig van de 20e eeuw om de macht in New York. Gaat vooraf aan ''The godfather'' van Mario Puzo.

1933 : New York s''abîme dans les profondeurs de la Grande Dépression. Les familles du crime ont prospéré et quadrillent tous les quartiers de la ville par la corruption des élus et des syndicats ou la profusion de leurs activités clandestines, prêt sur gage ou speakeasy. Or, avec la fin prochaine de la Prohibition, les cartes menacent d''être rebattues : une seule de ces familles pourrait prendre la tête de la Mafia, précipitant toutes les autres vers une fin violente. Pour Vito Corleone, rien n''est plus important que l''avenir des siens. Aux yeux de ses proches, femme et enfants, il veut apparaître comme l''homme d''affaires à succès de la Genco Pura Italian Oil Company. Pourtant, face à la guerre qui s''annonce, il va devoir tomber le masque de la respectabilité. Avec l''aide de ses plus fidèles hommes de main, il doit désormais faire entrer sa famille dans l''âge d''or de New York et devenir le tout-puissant Don Corleone...