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John Fante
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Author : Richard Collins
language : en
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Release Date : 2000
John Fante written by Richard Collins and has been published by Guernica Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
John Fante, an important figure in the history of the Italian-American novel, is proving to be fascinating to contemporary readers. Richard Collins has caught Fante's spirit from several crucial angles: as an ethnic writer; as a comic novelist; as a serious writer struggling to remain so in Hollywood. Intelligent, balanced, informative, and empathetic, this book combines criticism with scholarship, and biography with history to make what Henry James would have called a perfect 'literary portrait,' for it gives life to an interesting subject.
John Fante
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Author : Stephen Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1999
John Fante written by Stephen Cooper and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Over the span of a half-century - from the early 1930s to the early 1980s - the Italian-American Fante (1909-1983) wrote short stories and novels that drew on his own life from his Catholic childhood in Colorado through his down-and-out days in Los Angeles, to his adventures as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He writes about all these things with gusto, humor, directness, and an honesty tinged with the irony of a true modernist."--BOOK JACKET.
Full Of Life
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Author : John Fante
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-05-18
Full Of Life written by John Fante and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-18 with Fiction categories.
In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles.
Brotherhood Of The Grape
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Author : John Fante
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Brotherhood Of The Grape written by John Fante and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Fiction categories.
Henry Molise, a fifty-year-old successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his elderly parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, bricklaying father, Nick, despite being weakened by age and alcoholism, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, ill and devoutly Catholic, still has the power both to comfort and confuse her children. Nick has been offered some well-paid work to build a smokehouse in the hills, and Henry, realising this might be the last chance they have to reconcile things, agrees to lend a hand. What he doesn't appreciate is how much this journey is going to change his view of his father. The Brotherhood of the Grape is vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion. Writing with great passion, Fante powerfully describes the damage that family can wreak upon us all.
Ask The Dust
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Author : John Fante
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-05-18
Ask The Dust written by John Fante and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-18 with Fiction categories.
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.
John Fante Selected Letters 1932 1981
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Author : John Fante
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-08-17
John Fante Selected Letters 1932 1981 written by John Fante and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-17 with Fiction categories.
Fante's captivating letters trace his emergence from poverty to life as a Hollywood screenwriter. Complemented by many photos and interesting appendices, the book is most distinguished by Fante's letters to his mother-letters in which he is just as apt to lie about church attendance as he is to describe, with peculiar candor, skinny-dipping with a girl friend.
West Of Rome
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Author : John Fante
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-05-25
West Of Rome written by John Fante and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with Fiction categories.
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
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Author : Catherine J. Kordich
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 2000
John Fante written by Catherine J. Kordich and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fante's depiction of the Italian American experience in California, in novels and novellas like Full of Life and My Dog Stupid, has been recognized as part of the national drama of assimilation and ethnicity. Kordich looks at the life and works of Fante, whose long underground fame has evolved into a mainstream literary readership.
The John Fante Reader
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Author : John Fante
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-09-14
The John Fante Reader written by John Fante and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-14 with Fiction categories.
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.
Dreams From Bunker Hill
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Author : John Fante
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-05-18
Dreams From Bunker Hill written by John Fante and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-18 with Fiction categories.
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.