The Fortunate Pilgrim

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The Fortunate Pilgrim
First edition
Author	Mario Puzo
Language	English
Publication date	1965
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback) & Audiobook
Pages	544 pp (Paperback edition)
ISBN	0-449-00358-2 (Paperback editions)
OCLC	39560711
Preceded by	The Dark Arena
Followed by	The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw

The Fortunate Pilgrim is a 1965 novel by American author Mario Puzo.^[1]

Mario Puzo considered the novel his finest, most poetic, and literary work.^{[citation needed]} In one of his last interviews he stated that he was saddened by the fact that The Godfather, a fiction he never liked,^{[citation needed]} outshone the novel based on his mother's honest immigrant struggle for respectability in America and her courage and filial love.

Puzo said that the book's hero, Lucia Santa, is based on his own mother: "Whenever the Godfather opened his mouth, in my own mind I heard the voice of my mother. I heard her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family and for life itself. … The Don's courage and loyalty came from her; his humanity came from her… and so, I know now, without Lucia Santa, I could not have written The Godfather."

Plot

The novel tells the story of the Angeluzzi-Corbos family, a family of immigrants living an adopted life in New York City. The head of the family is Lucia Santa, a wife, widow and mother of two families. It is her formidable will that steers them through the Great Depression and the early years of World War II. But she cannot prevent the conflict between Italian and American values.

Miniseries

in 1988, the novel was turned into a miniseries with Sophia Loren in the lead role.

References

^ "The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.

External links

The Fortunate Pilgrim at IMDb

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Novels	The Dark Arena (1955) The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965) The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw (1966) Six Graves to Munich (1967, as Mario Cleri) The Godfather (1969) Fools Die (1978) The Sicilian (1984) The Fourth K (1991) The Last Don (1996) Omertà (2000) The Family (2001, with Carol Gino)
Screenplays	The Godfather (1972) Earthquake (1974) The Godfather Part II (1974) Superman (1978) Superman II (1980) The Godfather Part III (1990) Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
Non-fiction	The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions (1972) Inside Las Vegas (1977)
Miniseries adaptations	The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) The Last Don (1997) The Last Don II (1998)

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