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de Jimmy Breslin (Author) "The idea for the six-day bike race came out of a meeting held in November, in Brooklyn, in the offices of Anthony Pastrumo, Sr ..." En savoir plus
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It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969. It became a major motion picture that provided Robert DeNiro with his first film role. Its title has entered into the language as a catch phrase. And it's terrific fun!

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is the story of Papa Baccala, a Brooklyn Mafia boss, and Kid Sally Palumbo, a would-be capo who "couldn't run a gas station at a profit even if he stole the customers' cars". There's also Kid Sally's grandmother, who will go to extravagant lengths to see her boy make his mark. A love interest? Sure. Kid Sally's sister tumbles for an artistic type who rides a bicycle and has recently arrived from Calabria...

The high adventure begins with a six-day bike race that is only partly responsible for a rash of obituary notices reading: "Died. Suddenly". Eventually it all gets worked out in fine Sicilian fashion -- and, in the end, everybody gets his, in a manner of speaking.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 If Fredo Corleone Headed His Own Family...., Aoû 15 2001
It may very well have turned out like the rollicking racketeers in this novel. Film has elevated the Mafioso to either a Brando-like brilliant elder statesman, calculating and controlled Pacino or overweight but sexy Tony Soprano. Breslin spins all those ideas off the map with a tale about "regular guys" who happen to be mobsters and are, in fact, none too successful at it. Graphic and brutal, while maintaining and air of both satire and farce, this story is, with all its laughs, probably closest to the truth. After you worship at the altar of Vito Corleone, meet this other family in a very funny novel in which every mobster has the IQ of Fredo.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Funny and insightful as hell, Avril 18 2001
Par Britton J. Wingfield "wingnutx" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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If you are looking for a solemn documentary on the mafia, go elsewhere. If you want to be entertained by a brilliantly depicted cast of characters, this is for you. Fans of 'The Simpsons' should take a look at this.

The more politically correct and squeamish should stay away. This is about gansters; bad people doing bad things. If you can't sit through Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" then don't even try to read this book.

After 15 years of occasionally re-reading this book, it still makes me laugh out loud.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Funny Because It's So True - Breslin's Comic Masterpeice, Mai 28 1998
The finest comedy reveals truths that cannot be appreciated any other way -- such is the case with THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, a book that has kept me laughing for years. As someone who grew up in New York in the 60's and 70's, I knew people just like many of the characters in this book. Breslin has captured a time and a mindset that are, believe it or not, already mostly gone. Debunking the glorification of mobsters in THE GODFATHER, here is a riotously funny but far more truthful portrait of the petty, far from brilliant men who made up so much of the mob. Breslin also manages to draw hilariously insightful portraits of many others who made up the New York of two decades ago. (One example: a courtroom scene involving a confrontation between a Jewish lawyer, a Greek judge, an African American defendant and a Sicilian grandmother has to be read to be believed!) These types are still present in NYC, but attitudes have changed enough to make this book a priceless time capsule. Being of Sicilian descent myself, I find no offense in Breslin's humorous depictions. From a mob funeral to the simple spectacle on an old woman shooing a dog off her front stoop, his word pictures are as insightful as they are uproarious. Yes, the comedy becomes downright farcical at times, but so does real life. I've read many of Breslin's books and columns over the years, and consider him a superb writer. For my money, GANG is still his best and funniest work, a book that remains delightful read after read.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 A complete distortion of fiction and Breslin imagination.
Jimmy Breslin has once again shown what alcholism and a vivid imagination can do to a writer more bent on amusing, rather than informing. Read more
Publié le Jui 22 1998 par Dook829@aol.com

5.0étoiles sur 5 CLASSIC BRESLIN; WORTH READING AGAIN!
I first read THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT when I was a teenager in Brooklyn, a borough well renowned as being where most gangsters lived. I grew up in Dyker Heights. Read more
Publié le Avril 4 1998

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