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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

Breslin, Jimmy

Paperback

HumorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 0316111740
ISBN13: 9780316111744
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: Oct 1 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969. It became a major motion picture that provided Robert DeNiro with his first film role. Its title has entered into the language as a catch phrase. And it's terrific fun!

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is the story of Papa Baccala, a Brooklyn Mafia boss, and Kid Sally Palumbo, a would-be capo who couldn't run a gas station at a profit even if he stole the customers' cars. There's also Kid Sally's grandmother, who will go to extravagant lengths to see her boy make his mark. A love interest? Sure. Kid Sally's sister tumbles for an artistic type who rides a bicycle and has recently arrived from Calabria...

The high adventure begins with a six-day bike race that is only partly responsible for a rash of obituary notices reading: Died. Suddenly. Eventually it all gets worked out in fine Sicilian fashion -- and, in the end, everybody gets his, in a manner of speaking.

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