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Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family
by: Nicholas Pileggi

Used Price: £0.92

Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15092
EAN: 9780671723224
ISBN: 0671723227
Label: Pocket Books
Manufacturer: Pocket Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 01, 1990
Publisher: Pocket Books
Studio: Pocket Books
Sales Rank: 66483

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- one of the best books on the mob
A must read for anyone interested in Paulie Vario's crew in the Lucchese family. I read it in no time at all and you could easily read this book in a few hours, it's that good! Read the book before you watch the film

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- the best gangster biography available
Pileggi materfully interdisperses the quotes from the book's main protagonist, Henry Hill, and his wife, with thoughtful and dispassionate analysis. While this book largely reflects mob life during the 1970s in New York, it's bredth and pragmatism have elevated it to timeless classic. There's little here to fault. The central narrative of Hill's life is expertly interwoven with a variety of scams, gangsters and mafia politics, and the result is a serious, unglamorised portrayal of a life rarely separated from crude stereotypes and generalisations of the popular media. Wiseguy is the best of the genre by a significant distance, and it's only real competition is the book 'Casino' also by Pileggi. If organised crime is something that interests ... Read More:

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- fantastic
Reading this book i was expecting it to be good however i was blown away fantastic book that expands on the film with some hilarious (and some harrowing) tales. A five star gem

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- Good fellas, Good book
Blistering true life account of life within a mafia family. The film was superb, the book is even better. At time you actually feel like you are part of the family yourself. Marvellous!

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- It gave us Goodfellas so it can't be that bad!!!
Goodfellas is a great film, a classic. For a book to produce such an amazing film, the book's got to be something special in the first place. If you don't believe those people who claim that the book is better than the film read this and you'll soon join their line of thought. Pileggi is on a par with supreme author Mario Puzo - exemplified by his ability to mercutiously create each situation for the reader. It's such an easy read you'll be glued to it until you finish the final page. A true great, up there with the likes of other Mafioso classics such as The Godfather.

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