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Apr 30, 2024 · John Fante (born April 8, 1909, Denver, Colo., U.S. —died May 8, 1983, Woodland Hills, Calif.) was a U.S. writer. Born to Italian immigrant parents, Fante moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s. His first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), was followed by his best-known book, Ask the Dust (1939), the first of his novels set in ...
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May 20, 2024 · Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!”. ― John Fante.
2 days ago · Copyright : John Fante 1938, 1983. ISBN-10 : PB 1-84195-832-8. ISBN-13 : PB 978-1-84195-832-3. Publisher's Write-Up. A powerful, lyrical and touching tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town, Wait Until Spring, Bandini tells the story of a ...
I did a little search for other people opinions and it could be said: "oh! But there are books which the main chatacter is not likeable and that's the thing!" I can't be convinced by that from Fante, thus Bandini. It doesn't carry a message, taking American psycho for comparison, it's silly and self centered, and the nonsense racism is really ...
2 days ago · John Fante è nato in Colorado, a Denver, nel 1909. Sua madre era di origini lucane, ma era nata a Chicago. Suo padre, invece, Nick Fante, era arrivato in America nel 1901 dall’Abbruzzo, precisamente dal paese di Torricella Peligna , in provincia di Chieti.
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May 5, 2024 · 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.
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