by Nicholas Pileggi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422659969
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«Casino» is the novel by Nicholas Pileggi, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (332 pages, in Spanish).
The work recounts how the mafia controlled the Las Vegas casinos through Frank «Lefty» Rosenthal, a betting expert, and his partner Anthony «the Ant» Spilotro, a thug and hired killer. Ambition and internal disputes end up threatening their gambling empire.
Translation by Carmen Geronés and Carlos Urritz. The book was published in Barcelona in 1996.
For those seeking a true story of mafia and casinos, and for those who remember the film of the same name.
Nicholas Pileggi is an American author, screenwriter, film producer and journalist. He is the widower of director and journalist Nora Ephron. He wrote the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
