Dreams from Bunker Hill

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013068
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Dreams from Bunker Hill by : John Fante

Download or read book Dreams from Bunker Hill written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Bandini Quartet

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782116001
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Bandini Quartet written by John Fante and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ask the Dust

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013009
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Ask the Dust written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Now We are Enemies

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ISBN 13 : 9780984225668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis Now We are Enemies by : Thomas J. Fleming

Download or read book Now We are Enemies written by Thomas J. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, reviewers across America hailed "Now We Are Enemies" as a masterpiece. It still remains the most complete account of the clash that changed the course of America history¿the battle of Bunker Hill. It was the first book about the battle in almost 100 years¿and it marked the emergence of an author who has become widely acknowledged as the best historian of the American Revolution writing today. American History Press is proud to be offering this special fiftieth anniversary edition of this classic work. The book¿s readability was¿and still is¿vividly clear from the opening pages. The drama¿s appeal swiftly expands from suspense to profoundly human dimensions. We meet privates, sergeants, lieutenants, colonels and generals from both armies who frequently tell their stories in their own words. There are pages rich in courage¿and laden with heartbreak. ¿For God¿s sake spare that man!¿ shouts Colonel Israel Putnam as his men take deadly aim at a British officer. ¿I love him as a brother!¿ The British commander, General William Howe, stares numbly at his shattered bleeding ranks and experiences ¿a moment I never felt before.¿ There is only one word for such history: unforgettable.

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013173
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Wait Until Spring, Bandini written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Bunker Hill Los Angeles

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1626400679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Bunker Hill Los Angeles by : Nathan Marsak

Download or read book Bunker Hill Los Angeles written by Nathan Marsak and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir', historian Nathan Marsak tells the story of the Hill, from the district's inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its present day. Marsak commemorates the poets and writers, artists and activists, little guys and big guys, and of course, the many architects who built and rebuilt the community on the Hill - time after historic time. Any fan of American architecture will treasure Marsak's analysis of buildings that have crowned the Hill: the exuberance of Victorian shingle and spindlework, from Mission to Modern, from Queen Anne to Frank Gehry, Bunker Hill has been home to it all, the ever-changing built environment.

The Road to Los Angeles

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Publisher : Rebel Incorporated Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781841950495
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis The Road to Los Angeles by : John Fante

Download or read book The Road to Los Angeles written by John Fante and published by Rebel Incorporated Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

1933 Was A Bad Year

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062012991
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book 1933 Was A Bad Year written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Brotherhood of the Grape

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013033
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Grape written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Full of Life

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ISBN 13 : 9781925788440
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Book Synopsis Full of Life by : John Fante

Download or read book Full of Life written by John Fante and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The world's bleakest romantic comedy' - Los Angeles Times The narrator of John Fante's extravagant domestic comedy, who lives in Los Angeles, finds himself a home-owner and expectant father almost simultaneously and both sensations please him. It must be granted that there are certain adjustments to be made ...

Full of Life

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ISBN 13 : 9781883318581
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (185 download)

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Book Synopsis Full of Life by : Stephen Cooper

Download or read book Full of Life written by Stephen Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography of John Fante, one of the great lost souls of 20th-century literature, Stephen Cooper untangles the enigma of an authentic American original. By turns savage and poetic, violent and full of love, such novels as 'Ask the Dust' reveal and disguise the author.

Dark Side of Bunker Hill

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452015651
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Dark Side of Bunker Hill by : John Patrick Davey

Download or read book Dark Side of Bunker Hill written by John Patrick Davey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of an old lady in Cambridge sets off a pattern of deadly behavior leading to the murder of a retired Judge on Boston's Bunker Hill and the mysterious death of a disbarred attorney. An illegal plan to take over a multi million dollar insurance trust falls apart when the planners allow blackmail and greed to develop into murder. The plot from the beginning, is peopled by characters intent on cheating each other forgetting that main prize is the trust's millions managed by a trio of old men. In turn they stun the conspirators by pulling a clever scheme of `bait and switch' surpassing the ingenuity of their antagonists. The locus is Boston and it's Homicide Unit which leads the reader through the old city's `Freedom Trail' after the killers.

Coast of Dreams

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307795268
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Coast of Dreams by : Kevin Starr

Download or read book Coast of Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that show the California of the last decade, when the state was sometimes stumbling, sometimes humbled, but, more often, flourishing with its usual panache. From gang violence in Los Angeles to the spectacular rise–and equally spectacular fall–of Silicon Valley, from the Northridge earthquake to the recall of Governor Gray Davis, Starr ranges over myriad facts, anecdotes, news stories, personal impressions, and analyses to explore a time of unprecedented upheaval in California. Coast of Dreams describes an exceptional diversity of people, cultures, and values; an economy that mirrors the economic state of the nation; a battlefield where industry and the necessities of infrastructure collide with the inherent demands of a unique and stunning natural environment. It explores California politics (including Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election in the 2003 recall), the multifaceted business landscape, and controversial icons such as O. J. Simpson. “Historians of the future,” Starr writes, “will be able to see with more certainty whether or not the period 1990-2003 was not only the end of one California but the beginning of another”; in the meantime, he gives a picture of the place and time in a book at once sweeping and riveting in its details, deeply informed, engagingly personal, and altogether fascinating.

Founding Martyr

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 055341934X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Book Synopsis Founding Martyr by : Christian Di Spigna

Download or read book Founding Martyr written by Christian Di Spigna and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and illuminating biography of America’s forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and major general who fomented rebellion and died heroically at the battle of Bunker Hill on the brink of revolution Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Yet after his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence. Christian Di Spigna’s definitive new biography of Warren is a loving work of historical excavation, the product of two decades of research and scores of newly unearthed primary-source documents that have given us this forgotten Founding Father anew. Following Warren from his farming childhood and years at Harvard through his professional success and political radicalization to his role in sparking the rebellion, Di Spigna’s thoughtful, judicious retelling not only restores Warren to his rightful place in the pantheon of Revolutionary greats, it deepens our understanding of the nation’s dramatic beginnings.

The Wine of Youth

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013211
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Wine of Youth written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

A Rebel Among Redcoats

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Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434297012
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis A Rebel Among Redcoats by : Jessica Gunderson

Download or read book A Rebel Among Redcoats written by Jessica Gunderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Maggie Tinsdale fights for the patriot cause in this novel set in the Revolutionary War era.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Publisher : Bunker Hill Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781593730925
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Henry Ossawa Tanner written by and published by Bunker Hill Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated introduction to the life and career of Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African-American artist to gain international acclaim.