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      The Brotherhood of the Grape

      by John Fante
      Published
      Dec 1978
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      LUSTY OLD NICK MOLISEAS ZESTY AS ZORBA, AS RUTHLESS IN HIS WAYS AS DON CORLEONE.

      Stonemason, Italian patriarch, at 77 his fiendish antics still outrage his family and rock San Joaquin Valley with raging, womanizing, wine-guzzling glee. After a lifetime spent tormenting his wife and terrorizing his sons, Nick is determined to erect one last monument in stone, a tribute to his ancient Abruzzi art. Henry Molise, successful writer, family peacemaker, at 50, suddenly finds himself cast as apprentice, bamboozled into a final orgy of macho labor, sex and wine. With all the love, raucous tenderness and piercing rage only families can inspire, Henry faces his father and The Brotherhood of the Grape in a wild, drunken disaster calculated to cuckold age and time.

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      First Edition Dec 1978 Bantam ISBN13 9780553119398 ISBN10 0553119397
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      Sep 2002 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780876857267 ISBN10 0876857268
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      May 2010 Canongate Books ISBN13 9781841956190 ISBN10 1841956198
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      Jan 1977 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780395250464 ISBN10 0395250463
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      Mar 1988 Black Sparrow Press ISBN13 9780876857274 ISBN10 0876857276
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      Jan 2010 Harper ISBN13 9780062013033 ISBN10 0062013033
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