Ed Falco Sampler
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Recently, Grand Central Publishing announced plans for a prequal to Mario Puzo's The Godfather, to be written by our very own Ed Falco – of whom the New York Times Book Review noted, «There is in Mr. Falco's fiction a little of Raymond Carver's sensitivity to the menace of the everyday, and a lot of Andre Dubus's sturdy empathy with his characters' failings and regrets.»The Family Corleone will hit bookstores everywhere in May – but you don't need to wait that long to read Falco and discover why he is such an obviously perfect choice for the Corleone family. You can read excerpts now from the «compelling,» «vivid,» «intense,» and «brilliant» books of master storyteller, Ed Falco.This sampler includes excerpts from:SAINT JOHN OF THE FIVE BORUOUGHS – a beautifully turned, stunning and layered novel about the effects of violence, abandonment, and the nature of redemption. Edward Falco once again proves to be a master of urgency and suspense, of events careening out of control, as he brilliantly explores why we make the choices we make – both the ones that threaten to destroy our lives, and those choices that might save us.WOLF POINT – a taut, dramatic literary thriller that examines betrayal, trust and forgiveness. Driven as much by its sizzling story as by it razor-sharp prose, Wolf Point delivers the powerful tale of a man who realizes, perhaps too late, that he actually has something to live for. Edward Falco brings stunning emotional depth and tense action to unforgettable characters as they journey toward places where human illusions fail and they must face their hidden selves.SABBATH NIGHT IN THE CHURCH OF THE PIRANHA – for some years now, Ed Falco has quietly established his place among the absolute best American storytellers. Falco's stories are dangerous as a high-wire act without a net, filled with dramatic action and peopled with believable characters challenged by events into making risky moral choices, so emotionally true that the readers will carry them around for a long time. The decisions Falco's characters make reveal their bonds, the set of their hearts, and the harsh nature of the world we all live in today.
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Anyone taking a quick glance at my career as a writer could be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that I have the literary equivalent of ADHD (AttentionDeficit Hyperactivity Disorder). I've written and published poems, short fictions (what others call prose poems), short stories, plays, novels, and various experimentations with new media writing. In addition to working in multiple genres, I've also tried my hand at differing approaches to writing, from traditional to what we now call Postmodern. Most recently, starting only a few years ago, I got interested in popular fiction. I wrote a sci-fi, apocalypse novel, and then, before I was able to find the right ending to that novel, my agent—who also happens to be the agent for the Puzo family--offered me a chance to write a prequel to The Godfather. It was an extraordinary stroke of good luck. I jumped at it, and wrote The Family Corleone, which is forthcoming on May 8th from Grand Central Books.
This theoretical person glancing at my literary career might reasonably assume that The Family Corleone is yet another manifestation of my literary ADHD. I don't see it that way. I see myself as a writer with a few obsessive themes that I return to again and again in a variety of forms and genres. I'm interested in monsters in all their shapes and manners, and I am consistently interested in the monster under the mask of civility. Much of my writing, regardless of the working aesthetics or the genre or any other formal concern, comes around to this thematic interest—and naturally, from there, to the struggle, the war, within characters trying to repress the monster and live a civilized, a decent, life. Take, uncle, Grant killed a man—and throughout the novel we see his struggle as he tries to figure out who he is: a murderer most interested in money and power, or an artist capable of love and a decent life. At the heart of Wolf Point, my other novel from Unbridled, there's a monstrous photograph which holds a powerful attraction for T, the central character, and which he must come to see as monstrous before he can begin to change. As for my short stories, the theme is everywhere in them. In my Unbridled collection, Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha, see "The Revenant," or "Silver Dollars," or "The Artist," or, in a title that won't win a prize for subtlety, "Monsters." In so much of my writing, and in all three of my books from Unbridled, there are characters at war with what is dark and dangerous in their deepest selves—or, as Yeats puts it masterfully in one of my favorite lines of poetry, "in the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."
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It may look like it at a glance, but I really don't have a literary form of ADHD. Actually, quite the opposite.
Ed Falco
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