About the Book: In his memoir Sonny Boy, Al Pacino erupts onto the scene like a supernova—breaking out in 1971’s The Panic in Needle Park and, by 1975, starring in four genre-defining films (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon) that irrevocably changed cinema. Yet by then the actor had already lived many lives—he was forged in the avant-garde theatres of New York, the hard streets of the South Bronx, and odd jobs that kept his craft alive. This is the memoir of a man with nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide—a story of love and purpose, of creative fire burning without expectation, and a reminder that falling deeply for your craft can make all the difference