Badfellas by Tonino Benacquista
An American family moves into a villa in Normandy. Fred Blake, the father, tells everyone he is there to write a history of the Allied landings. His wife Maggie gets involved in a local charity; their teenage children enrol in the lycee. At first glance a family like any other. But Fred's real name is Giovanni Manzoni - an ex-Mafia boss.
Boisterous black comedy writer - funny and good-hearted, with much incident and expert enthusiasm for sex, food and drinkA" Literary Review A wonderful observer of everyday life, petty evil and the ordinariness of crime. One of France's leading crime and mystery authors.A" The Guardian
After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, a train guard on the Paris-Rome line and a professional parasite on the Paris cocktail circuit, Benacquista now a highly successful author of fiction, film scripts and even graphic novels. 'Holy Smoke', 'Someone Else' and 'Framed' were previously published by Bitter Lemon Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904738435 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904738435 |
| Title | Badfellas |
| Author | Tonino Benacquista |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Year published | 2010-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for CWA International Dagger 2010 |
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