I just finished reading The Fortunate Pilgrim, by Mario Puzo, who is perhaps most well known for The Godfather, and it was quite an intresting as well as powerfully done book. Though perhaps one of my faveorite books by his is Fools Die and The Last Don, which was made in to a TV moive, but The Fortunate Pilgrim was a very different work by him. There was a certain simplicity to it, it lacked the usual intercate deatail and complextieis that he usually puts into his work, but overall, the story did not suffer for it, in fact considering the subject matter of the story, it worked quite well. It was not as sentatinalized as many of his books tend to be, which in many ways acutally made it more human. The Fortunate Pilgrim tell the story of a family of Italian Imigrants, whom are living in America around the time of the depression, and thier struggles and trials. It focues upon on particualr nighborhood, in which poverty striken imigrants are living, and it deals with the old genreation that lived within the "Old Countery" or Italy, and how thier children are becoming more Amercinized and forgetting the conservitive strict old Italian Vaules thier mothers and fathers live by. The story focuses upon one particular family, and ther trials, mistakes, sufferings, struggles and fortunes. And he brings such humaness to the charcters, such life, that you really get drawn into thier world. It is just life real life, not overly dramtic, no grand happily ever efter, but no theatric tragedy either, but a sieris of ups and downs, of pain and joy.
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