| 词条 | The Godfather Returns |
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| name = The Godfather Returns | title_orig = | translator = | image = The Godfather Returns.jpg| caption = | author = Mark Winegardner | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = The Godfather | genre = Crime novel | publisher = Random House | release_date = November 16, 2004 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audiobook | pages = 448 pp (Hardcover), 538 pp (Paperback) | isbn = 1-4000-6101-6 | dewey= 813/.54 22 | congress= PS3573.I528 G64 2004b | oclc= 56936487 | preceded_by = The Sicilian | followed_by = The Godfather's Revenge }} The Godfather Returns is a novel written by author Mark Winegardner, published in 2004. It is the sequel to Mario Puzo's The Godfather, which was originally published in 1969, and The Sicilian (1984). The publisher, Random House, selected Winegardner to write a sequel after Puzo's death.[1] As the original novel covered the years 1945 to 1955, and included significant back story on Don Vito Corleone's life, Returns covers the years 1955 to 1962, and includes significant back story on Michael Corleone's life prior to the first novel. It was also published under the name The Godfather: The Lost Years.[2] PlotThe story picks up immediately after the end of the first novel. The events of the film The Godfather Part II take place within the time frame of this novel, but are only mentioned in the background. Many of Puzo's characters are expanded upon, especially Fredo Corleone, Tom Hagen, and Johnny Fontane, and new characters like Nick Geraci, Danny Shea, and Francesca Corleone are introduced. The other half of the novel goes deeper into Michael's role as Don and his dream of legitimizing the Corleone family. The novel expands on Michael's service in World War II as well as his brother Fredo's secret life. The novel shows how Sonny, Fredo and Tom Hagen join the family business, as well as the deaths of Pete Clemenza and Sal Tessio. The Godfather Returns was followed by The Godfather's Revenge in 2006, also written by Winegardner. BackgroundIn the 1990s, Puzo had been approached to write a sequel to The Godfather; he declined, but stated that he would not object to a sequel being written by another author after he had died. Several years after Puzo's 1999 death, Random House held a contest to select a potential author: entrants were required to write a synopsis of their proposed book along with a completed sample chapter. Winegardner was selected from several thousand entrants as the author of the new novel.[3] ReceptionMichiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it "a solid enough performance: dutiful, suspenseful and only occasionally annoying." [1] References1. ^1 {{cite journal|last=KAKUTANI|first=MICHIKO|title=You Think You're Out, but They Try to Pull You Back In|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/books/12book.html?_r=1|date=November 12, 2004|journal=The New York Times|accessdate=2012-06-03|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/689KtobWx|archivedate=2012-06-03}} {{Godfather}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Godfather Returns, The}}2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/nov/20/featuresreviews.guardianreview18|title=Review: The Godfather by Mark Winegardner|last=Kerr|first=Philip|date=2004-11-20|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-03-07|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} 3. ^{{cite web|title='The Godfather Returns' in New Book|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/11/17/godfather-returns-in-new-book/|date=November 17, 2004|accessdate=March 28, 2015|publisher=FoxNews.com}} 3 : 2004 American novels|The Godfather novels|Interquel novels |
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