Conversation with Johnny
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anthony Valerio.
Series: Prose series ;;  43; Prose series ;; v. 43.
Publisher: Guernica; Guernica Editions Inc.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Description: Conversation with Johnny gives us Nicholas, Johnny, Lefty, and Don Pippo. His affair with Lefty - a redheaded, left-handed, cross-eyed, and married woman - in shambles, Nicholas travels to the old neighborhood seeking the counsel and wisdom that only Johnny, the don, can give him. When Johnny encourages Nicholas to tell him his troubles, out tumbles a series of sly, hilarious, and touching stories. Like Lefty's need for Nicholas to be a Button Man, her Button Man.

Like Nicholas's allergy to wheat so he can't eat pasta. Like the story of Don Pippo, the last godfather.