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Winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, ACID is a collection of short stories that entertain and engage us and, in the end, make new again some of the oldest and most intractable human struggles. Edward Falco unmasks the difficult truths that engage us at the deepest levels of our being, revealing how the world of restraint and order can become a jail, and how the world of passion and indulgence of the senses can become an all-c...

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Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny - seventeen years old, impatient, and reckless - wants something else: to follow in his father's footsteps, and become a part of the real family business.

Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a 23-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, and Lucky Luciano. Tagged "Mad Dog Coll" after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botche...

For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. His youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation. His adopted son, Tom Hagen, is a college student, but he worries most about Sonny, his oldest child.

Winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, Acid is a collection of short stories that entertain and engage us and, in the end, make new again some of the oldest and most intractable human struggles.