
Scarface
The Novel. The Legend.
Armitage Trail(Author)
Dean Street Press Limited
Published on 4. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
166 pages
978-1-912574-67-4 (ISBN)
Description
‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I’ve bumped off six or eight myself and another one – especially a rat like you – wouldn’t mean a thing in my young life. Get me?’
Scarface is the iconic fictionalization of one of history’s most notorious gangsters, Al Capone. It follows Tony Guarino’s harsh upbringing on the streets of Chicago, where a young man unwilling to contemplate a life of humble poverty hungers to reach the big time. Tony has grown up in a world where every gangster is a hero and every cop an enemy, so his path to power is paved with force and brutality. At only eighteen, Tony shoots dead gang boss Al Spingola, and this is just the beginning of his uncompromising journey into organized crime. He eventually becomes the most powerful and feared man in the Chicago underworld, luxuriating in a world of opulence, dames, and danger. But while Tony struggles to balance a life of violence with a code of honour, Scarface ultimately proves an ancient maxim – the fate of those who live by the sword.
Scarface was first published in 1930, and remains one of the most potent evocations of the origins of American gangster culture ever committed to print, and an ever-green work of cult fiction.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Salisbury
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
184 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912574-67-4 (9781912574674)
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Person
Armitage Trail (1902-1930) was an American novelist best known for Scarface, a work that became closely associated with early portrayals of organized crime in American literature. His writing reflects the atmosphere of the prohibition era and its impact on urban life and criminal enterprise.