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Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2014-08-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1782116001 |
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Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised.
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1841954977 |
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One of the great outsider figures of twentieth-century literature, John Fante possessed a style of deceptive simplicity, full of emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point. Among the novels, short stories and screenplays that comprised his career, Fante's crowning accomplishments were, for many, his four stories about a certain uncomplicated character from the hills of Abruzzi. Collected together in one volume for the first time, The Bandini Quartet tells of Arturo Bandini, Fante's fictional alter ego, an impoverished young Italian-American who, armed with only a Jesuit high school education and the insane desire to write novels, escapes his suffocating home in Colorado to seek glory in a Depression-era Los Angeles. This edition also includes the first-ever UK publication of Dreams From Bunker Hill, the brilliant and final novel which a blind and wheelchair-bound Fante, nearing his death bed, dictated to his wife Joyce.
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010-05-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062013009 |
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Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062013173 |
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He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Rebel Incorporated Classics |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bandini, Arturo (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9781841950495 |
Download The Road to Los Angeles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2010-05-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062013068 |
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My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twenty-one years old, living in a world bounded on the west by Bunker Hill, on the east by Los Angeles Street, on the south by Pershing Square, and on the north by Civic Center. I was a busboy nonpareil, with great verve and style for the profession, and though I was dreadfully underpaid (one dollar a day plus meals) I attracted considerable attention as I whirled from table to table, balancing a tray on one hand, and eliciting smiles from my customers. I had something else beside a waiter's skill to offer my patrons, for I was also a writer.
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2010-05-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062012991 |
Download 1933 Was A Bad Year Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062013181 |
Download West of Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano, and he did not believe in God. He was that most singular and startling craftsman of the building trade-a left-handed bricklayer. Like my father, Frank came from Torcella Peligna, a cliff-hugging town in the Abruzzi. Lean as a spider, he wore a leather cap and puttees the year around, and he was so bowlegged a dog could lope between his knees without touching them."
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062013033 |
Download The Brotherhood of the Grape Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Henry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, brick laying father, Nick, though weak and alcoholic, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, though ill and devout to her Catholicism, still has the power to comfort and confuse her children. This is typical of Fante's novels, it's autobiographical, and brimming with love, death, violence and religion. Writing with great passion Fante powerfully hits home the damage family can wreck upon us all.
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062013211 |
Download The Wine of Youth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new edition of the legendary Dago Red, first published in 1940, contains seven new stories, including "A Nun No More" and "My Father’s God."