TheEdinburghBookshop<p><a href="https://bookish.community/tags/WhatWereReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatWereReading</span></a> : Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli by Mark Seal, a deep dive into the creation of the bestselling Godfather novel, then the film, featuring a fascinating cast of now-famous names.</p><p>An especial delight for <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Film</span></a> fans, giving a window into the turbulent period when the big studios were changing and a new generation of film-makers were shaking things up (Coppola, young and hungry but almost unknown at this point, fighting to get an even more unknown actor called Al Pacino cast, real life mobsters interacting with Hollywood execs)</p><p><a href="https://bookish.community/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/livres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livres</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/LeaveTheGunTakeTheCannoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveTheGunTakeTheCannoli</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/TheGodfather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGodfather</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/FrancisFordCoppola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrancisFordCoppola</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/Filmmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Filmmaking</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/livres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livres</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/MarioPuzo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarioPuzo</span></a></p>