Honor Thy Father
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the heart of the American Mafia's golden age stands Bill Bonanno, son of legendary crime boss Joseph Bonanno — and Honor Thy Father is the unprecedented, intimate chronicle of a man trapped between loyalty to his blood and the brutal realities of organised crime. Gay Talese spent years embedded with the Bonanno family, gaining rare access to their private world to present a portrait of the mob not as myth, but as a suffocating family dynasty, where honour is currency and betrayal is a death sentence. This is no sensationalised gangster tale; it is a work of immersive narrative journalism that captures the tedium, paranoia, and quiet violence of a life lived on the fringes of the law. Talese's signature style — meticulous in detail, cinematic in scope — transforms true crime reportage into literary art, drawing comparisons to the finest American non-fiction of the twentieth century. Honor Thy Father forces readers to reckon with the contradictions of the American Dream, asking whether the code of family honour that built the Bonanno empire is so different from the ambitions that built the nation itself. It is a question that lingers long after the final page.
Author: Gay Talese
Format: Hardback
Genre: True crime
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the heart of the American Mafia's golden age stands Bill Bonanno, son of legendary crime boss Joseph Bonanno — and Honor Thy Father is the unprecedented, intimate chronicle of a man trapped between loyalty to his blood and the brutal realities of organised crime. Gay Talese spent years embedded with the Bonanno family, gaining rare access to their private world to present a portrait of the mob not as myth, but as a suffocating family dynasty, where honour is currency and betrayal is a death sentence. This is no sensationalised gangster tale; it is a work of immersive narrative journalism that captures the tedium, paranoia, and quiet violence of a life lived on the fringes of the law. Talese's signature style — meticulous in detail, cinematic in scope — transforms true crime reportage into literary art, drawing comparisons to the finest American non-fiction of the twentieth century. Honor Thy Father forces readers to reckon with the contradictions of the American Dream, asking whether the code of family honour that built the Bonanno empire is so different from the ambitions that built the nation itself. It is a question that lingers long after the final page.