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.

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.

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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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

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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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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.

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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Publisher : New York : Stackpole sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Wait Until Spring, Bandini written by John Fante and published by New York : Stackpole sons. This book was released on 1938 with total page 276 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
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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.

Fante

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

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Book Synopsis Fante by : Dan Fante

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.

John Fante's Ask the Dust

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Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287882
Total Pages : 288 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 288 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

West of Rome

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013181
Total Pages : 165 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 165 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."

When Hollywood Came to Town

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781423605874
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book When Hollywood Came to Town written by James D' Arcy and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a hundred years, the state of Utah has played host to scores of Hollywood films, from potboilers on lean budgets to some of the most memorable films ever made, including The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Footloose, and Thelma &telling how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. As one Utah rancher memorably said, Hollywood moviemakers "don't take anything but pictures and don't leave anything but money." James V. D'Arc, Ph.D., is Curator of the BYU Motion Picture Archive, the BYU Film Music Archive and the Arts and Communications Archive of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University. He directs the BYU Motion Picture Archive Film Series, produces a CD series of original motion picture soundtrack, and appears on DVD documentaries dealing with classic films. For over 30 years, Dr. D'Arc has lectured internationally on motion picture history and has taught film courses at BYU. He lives in Orem, Utah.

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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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 ...

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."

Sometimes I Dream in Italian

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Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0307491137
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Sometimes I Dream in Italian written by Rita Ciresi and published by Delta. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel Lupo grew up in a traditional Italian home — an exclusive club where Mama’s word was everything ... and where nice girls saved themselves for marriage. All Angel wanted was to be movie-star blond, change her name, and get as much attention as her prettier older sister Lina. Now Angel is nearing thirty, penning Catholic greeting cards for a living, and still jealous of her sister, who has a house in the suburbs, two kids, and a husband who loves her. So Angel does the next best thing: She answers a personal ad. Dirk Diederhoff is blond, teaches at Vassar, and is definitely not Italian. Nor is he the thrill-a-minute lover and soul mate Angel prays for. But as Lina, recklessly embarked on an affair of her own, would tell her: There are no perfect tens out there — only men who want you to talk to them in Italian during sex. The award-winning author of Pink Slip gets the rituals and rhythms of domestic life just right in Sometimes I Dream in Italian, a bittersweet comedy about sisters, lovers, and a family that doesn’t quite translate.

The Big Hunger

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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.

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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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.