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The John Fante Reader

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062036807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The John Fante Reader written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren't many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante. The John Fante Reader is the important next step in the reintroduction of this influential author to modern audiences. Combining excerpts from his novels and stories, as well as his never-before-published letters, this collection is the perfect primer on the work of a writer -- underappreciated in his time -- who is finally taking his place in the pantheon of twentieth-century American writers.

Ask the Dust

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013009
Total Pages : 194 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 194 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.

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013173
Total Pages : 179 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 179 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.

The Road to Los Angeles

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

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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:

Dreams from Bunker Hill

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

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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.

Fante

Author : Dan Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062027093
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Fante written by Dan Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No two lives could have been more different, yet similar in a few essential ways than John and Dan Fante′s. As father and son, John and Dan Fante were prone to fights, resentment and extended periods of silence. As men, they were damaged by alcoholism. As writers, they were compelled by anger, rage and unstoppable passion. In FANTE, Dan Fante traces his family′s history from the hillsides of Italy to the immigrant neighborhoods of Colorado to Los Angeles. There, John Fante struggles to gain the literary recognition he so badly craves, and despite the publication of his best known work, ASK THE DUST, he turns to the steady paycheck of Hollywood, working as a screenwriter to support his family. We follow Dan through a troubled childhood to his discovery of life′s vices through work as a carnival barker and later as he hitchhikes to New York City, where he drives a taxi for twelve years. While John Fante′s rage over his perceived failures as a writer and his struggle with debilitating diabetes make him more and more miserable, Dan struggles with alcoholic blackouts, suicidal thoughts and what he deems a broken mind. John was a writer whose literary contributions were not recognised until the end of his life. Dan was an alcoholic saved by writing, who at the age of 45 picked up his father′s old typewriter in order to ease the madness in his mind. Fante is the story of the evolution of a relationship between father and son who eventually found their way back to loving each other. In straightforward unapologetic prose, Dan Fante lays bare his family′s story from his point of view, with the rage and passion of a writer, which he feels was his true inheritance and his father′s greatest gift.

The Bandini Quartet

Author : John Fante
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.

West of Rome

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013181
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book West of Rome written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

John Fante's Ask the Dust

Author : Stephen Cooper
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287882
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book John Fante's Ask the Dust written by Stephen Cooper and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact. The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings. A must-read for aficionados of L.A. fiction and new migration literature, John Fante’s “Ask the Dust”: A Joining of Voices and Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante studies to reveal the novel’s evolving intertextualities and intersectionalities. Contributors: Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, Giovanna DiLello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Philippe Garnier, Robert Guffey, Ryan Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams

The Wine of Youth

Author : John Fante
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."

1933 Was A Bad Year

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847676146
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book 1933 Was A Bad Year written by John Fante and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to start writing. In a life that spanned 74 years, Fante wrote several great novels, such as Ask the Dust, and numerous screenplays. He died in 1983 from diabetes-related complications. Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to the big leagues, big recognition and big love. He struggles, though, against the reality of his Italian parents, and comes under pressure to go into the family business. Brick-laying is not for Dominic. His father, however, seeks to pre-empt the inevitable road to failure by wanting Dominic to pick up a trowel instead of a pitcher's glove. His mother's response is to pray. At once the story of class and an individual's struggle during hard times in America, 1933 was a Bad Year is a wonderful tale of childhood and its dissipation into adulthood.

Selected Letters, 1932-1981

Author : John Fante
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780876858325
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters, 1932-1981 written by John Fante and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chump Change

Author : Dan Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061959294
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Chump Change written by Dan Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fante’s Chump Change. Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Chump Change follows Bruno through the tension and stress of facing his family—and the inevitable, pain-dulling drinking that lands him naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet. Chump Change is “an honest misfit’s view of America far too few know.” (John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman).

Full of Life

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

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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.

The Brotherhood of the Grape

Author : John Fante
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.

The John Fante Reader

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062036807
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The John Fante Reader written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren't many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante. The John Fante Reader is the important next step in the reintroduction of this influential author to modern audiences. Combining excerpts from his novels and stories, as well as his never-before-published letters, this collection is the perfect primer on the work of a writer -- underappreciated in his time -- who is finally taking his place in the pantheon of twentieth-century American writers.

The Big Hunger

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013025
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Big Hunger written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.