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  1. The Fortunate Pilgrim is a 1965 novel by American author Mario Puzo.. Mario Puzo considered the novel his finest, most poetic, and literary work. [citation needed] In one of his last interviews he stated that he was saddened by the fact that The Godfather, a fiction he never liked, [citation needed] outshone the novel based on his mother's honest immigrant struggle for respectability in America and her courage and filial love.

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    • 1965
  2. Jun 25, 2001 · The fortunate pilgrim by Puzo, Mario, 1920-Publication date 1997 Topics Italian Americans, Immigrants Publisher New York : Random House Collection

  3. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best. The book's hero, Lucia Santa, is an incredibly captivating character and based on Puzo's very own mother - he describes, "her wisdom, her ...

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  5. His best-selling novel The Godfather was preceded by two critically acclaimed novels, The Dark Arena (1955) and The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965). In 1978 he published Fools Die, followed by The Sicilian (1984), The Fourth K (1991), and the second instalment in his Mafia trilogy, The Last Don (1996), which became an international bestseller. Mario ...

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  6. The Fortunate Pilgrim is an immigrant story featuring Lucia Santa. Her family has moved from Italy and finds themselves in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. In a somewhat autobiographical story (Lucia Santa being his real life mother), she has to go through a great deal of adversity as a single mom raising six children.

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  8. At turns poignant, comic and violent, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best. The book's hero, Lucia Santa, is an incredibly captivating character and based on Puzo's very own mother - he describes, her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family and for life itself, qualities not valued in women at the time.