A novel by Domenic Parravano
Donnie P.
- Power. Family. Ambition. Secrets.
- A city built on deals. A legacy built on love.
- Everyone knew the name. No one knew the man.
He built a skyline. He built a company, a reputation, a name that opened every door in the city. Then one morning Donnie P. was gone, and the people who loved him began to find out how much of him they had never been told.
Two men, one name
For seventeen years there were two of him, and only one had his picture in the paper.
Donnie P.
The man the city knew
A developer with his photograph in the newspaper. Towers going up along a waterfront Toronto had not yet learned to want. Lunches with politicians, a hand on every shoulder in the room, and a name people said as though it owed them something. When a poll suggested he could take the mayor's office without running for it, the newscasters called him a flamboyant millionaire and he did nothing to correct them.
Uncle Don
The man his family knew
A storybook open across his knees. A niece, Stefanie, whom he loved like a daughter from the day she was born. Bedtime stories, birthday candles, afternoons in the park. For seventeen years she believed this was the truer man. The novel is about what it cost him to keep the two of them apart.
The author
Domenic Parravano
At 77, Domenic Parravano, known to so many as Donnie P., has lived a life as rich and layered as the story he has always longed to tell. He arrived in Toronto with big dreams and an unshakable drive, watched the city transform, and helped build it. Donnie P. is his first novel.
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Donnie P. is out now.
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