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The Dark Arena

Oct 24, 2024 8:21 PM

Author:Mario Puzo

The Dark Arena

MARIO PUZO'S FIRST ACCLAIMED NOVEL, BEFORE HIS CREATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, THE GODFATHER. AN ASTOUNDING STORY OF CORRUPTION AND BETRAYAL.

Hardened by the brutality and desceration of three long years of war, Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows he must run back to the land of the enemy, to find the woman who accepts the rage and cruelty of the world around her.

In Germany, where the bitter aftermath of war is everything apparent, American cigarettes will buy almost anything. Mosca now faces a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision - between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death...

Reviews

The book reveals Mr Puzo to be a writer of power and precision ... This grim, gruff-mouthed, stiff-souled fellow [Mosca] overcomes the reader not with muscle but with the humanity and tenderness of his tragedy

—— New York Herald Tribune

To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one

—— Stephen King

Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense

—— Harper Lee

The war novel to end all war novels

—— Independent

Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this

—— Financial Times

Unforgettable

—— Sunday Times

Outrageously funny

—— Observer

Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly

—— Philip Toynbee , Observer

The greatest satirical work in the English language

—— Observer

A wondrous book with many layers. When I first read it at 14 the story of war and passion really inspired me. It was like reading something in neon: everything came alive. As a teenager you start to feel the world is against you and I identified strongly with Yossarian and his dilemma. One of the funniest things I've ever read.

—— Nathaniel Parker , Daily Express

A real page-tuner

—— Mail on Sunday

He [Anthony] hooks you in with his deep, complex characters; he meticulously sets the scene

—— www.thebookbag.co.uk

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