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Leonardo Donofrio

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Cardiff, The United Kingdom
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John Fante, Mario Puzo, Sergio Leone

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September 2015


L D'Onofrio is Welsh and lives in Cardiff, Wales.
He likes movies, music, photography.
He is the author of Italian crime classic 'Old Country' and its acclained sequel 'The Killing of Bruno Rossi.'
A boxing aficionado, he is unread, uneducated, and unrepentant.
He has recently completed his third book, the sci-fi novella 'Redlands.'

His writings on boxing can be found on: https://blacklightsboxingblog.wordpre...
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Average rating: 4.18 · 115 ratings · 18 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Old Country

4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions
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The  Killing of Bruno Rossi...

4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Redlands

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018
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Old Country Part 3 - The Search for Carlo Greco - available now!

Firestarter: The Search for Carlo Greco

‘I’ll be honest with you… things are going to get a little dark…’
Five years after violently escaping custody, charismatic killer, and FBI’s most wanted man, Carlo 'The Pyro' Greco, is still at large. All leads have led nowhere and, despite an extensive global manhunt, the FBI are still no closer to catching him. But a random killing at The Louvre gallery in P Read more of this blog post »
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Leonardo Donofrio Leonardo Donofrio said: " Graphic, profane, streaked with bleak poetry and totally unfiltered, this is the type of book you will either cherish or despise.
I first read this years ago when a self- published paperback was doing the rounds in Cardiff. I don’t think I finished i
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“Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.”
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“Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.”
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“Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...”
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“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
Frank Sinatra

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
Jim Morrison

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Hemingway, Ernest

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