The Family (Abridged) Audiobook, by Mario Puzo Play Audiobook Sample

The Family (Abridged) Audiobook

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Read By: Philip Bosco Publisher: HarperCollins Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 9.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2004 Format: Abridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780060752316

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

20

Longest Chapter Length:

46:27 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

40:11 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

43:18 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

8

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Publisher Description

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”

—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys

“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”

Booklist

Mario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is the ultimate crowning achievement of the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist who gave the world The Godfather, arguably the greatest Mafia crime novel ever written.  In The Family, Puzo—whom the Washington Post calls, “A serious American talent”—plunges reader into the colorful tumult of the Italian Renaissance, immersing them in the roiling intrigues and deadly affairs of the remarkable family whose name has always been synonymous with power, corruption, poison, and murder: the infamous Borgias.

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“One of his most satisfying novels…The saga is lush, full of detail, with characters who manage to be larger than life while seeming entirely realistic…appropriately epic in scope, mixing fact and fiction seamlessly…A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”

— Booklist 

Quotes

  • “Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”

    — Nicolas Pileggi, New York Times bestselling author
  • “Head-long entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayal, assassinations, Richter-scale romance, and, of course, family values.”

    — Time
  • “An absorbing, highly entertaining, fictional account of the rise and rule—and eventual fall—of that notorious first family of dysfunction during the Renaissance, the Borgias. Fast-paced and well researched…may well be the most ambitious novel of Puzo’s career.”

    — Barnes & Noble, editorial review

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About the Authors

Mario Puzo (1920–1999) was born in “Hell’s Kitchen” on Manhattan’s West Side, New York City. Following military service in World War II, he attended New York’s New School for Social Research and Columbia University. In addition to his best-known novel, The Godfather, and other books, he wrote several screenplays including Superman and all three Godfather movies, for which he received two Academy Awards.

About Philip Bosco

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), born in Chicago, was educated at Michigan Military Academy and served briefly in the US Cavalry. He began writing while working as a pencil-sharpener salesman, publishing his first piece in 1912 to great success. He authored numerous science fiction and fantasy series but is most famous for his Tarzan books; the suburb of Los Angeles where he lived eventually became known as Tarzana.