Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
Tired, depressed and bored, Charley Fontana marries Maerose "for the change." But he needn't have bothered. Don Corrado has a bigger change in mind...respectability for the Prizzis.Gambling, narcotics, extortion, murder, loan-sharking, prostitution -- these lines get franchised to young muscle. But the money still flows to the family. Don Corrado uses it to leverage a new scam: national political power, with Charley (now the respectable Charles Macy Barton) at the helm.
"Another feast of cheerful mordancy. PRIZZI'S GLORY is further proof that there is no more accomplished or entertaining satirist writing today." (The New Yorker)
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
The Prizzi family, the most lovable band of killers since Arsenic and Old Lace , returns in Condon's hilarious third and final entry in his thugs-to-riches saga of don Corrado Prizzi's billion-dollar Mafia clan. As the 1992 presidential elections approach, the Prizzis plot their most brazen foray yet into the American dream. With their sights set on nothing less than the entire executive branch of the government, the family attempts the impossible: the transformation of Charley Partanna, the slow-witted hit man with a glare that could melt a sawed-off shotgun, into the country's most respected and elegant businessman, a cross between Lee Iaccoca and William F. Buckley Jr. The stage is thus set for a battle between Maerose Prizzi's Machiavellian ambitions and the old-world Sicilian traditions that have ruled the Prizzi family for 700 years. Prizzi's Glory is a classic black comedy, a send-up of national elections, nouvelle society, corporate management and celebrity worship. Condon's ear for dialogue has never been keener, and this razor-sharp satire on the American dream is the most cynical and entertaining view of U.S. politics and business since S. J. Perelman. Required reading for the November elections. (September)Library Journal
Good news! The Prizzis are back! Don Corrado still runs the family. Maerose is married at last, after a 19-year courtship, and she runs husband Charley, the family's enforcer/CEO. The Prizzis are cleaning up their act; they have moved off the streets and into the ``franchise'' business. They offer better operations manuals than MacDonald's, with instruction on how to run everything from slots and drugs to their new line in ``convenience orgy opportunities.'' Charley has changed his nose and his nameto Charles Macy Bartonand walks and talks like a young George Bush. In his third novel about mobdom's family of human sharks, Condon attacks America's sacred cows and serves up unforgettable characters and madcap antics. Mario Puzo, eat your heart out. David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, UticaBook Details
Published
March 1, 1990
Publisher
New Amer Library (Mm)
Pages
368
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780451164681