3 Novels by John Fante
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Overview: JOHN FANTE was born in Colorado in 1909. His first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, was published in 1938. The following year Ask the Dust appeared, followed by Dago Red, a collection of stories, in 1940.
Meanwhile, Fante had been occupied extensively in screen-writing. Some of his credits include Full of Life, Jeanne Eagels, My Man and I, The Reluctant Saint, Something for a Lonely Man, My Six Loves and Walk on the Wild Side.
Fante was stricken with diabetes in 1955 and its complications brought about his blindness in 1978, but he continued to write by dictation to his wife, Joyce. He died at the age of 74 on May 8, 1983.
Fante’s selected stories, The Wine of Youth, and two early novels, The Road to Los Angeles and 1933 Was a Bad Year, were among the works published after his death. The John Fante Reader (Ecco, 2003), a collection combining excerpts from his novels and stories, as well as previously unpublished letters, is the most recent addition to the posthumous body of work and a long-awaited tribute to an extraordinary career.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Literature > Americana
1933 Was A Bad Year:
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 Big Hunger:
Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.
Taken together, the stories here, along with generous editorial notes, provide a useful introduction to Fante’s fiction, charting the writer’s development from raw youth to accomplished maturity. The tales range from funny, iconoclastic depictions of Catholic boyhood ("Horselaugh on Dibber Lannon", "Jackie’s Mother"), through comically self-aggrandizing chronicles of struggling-apprentice years on Bunker Hill ("To Be a Monstrous Fellow", "I Am a Writer of Truth"), to bittersweet, wry commentaries on the travails of family life and Hollywood ("The Taming of Valenti", "The Case of the Haunted Writer"). The final story, "The First Time I Saw Paris" — written in 1959, when Fante was working on a screenplay for Darryl Zanuck and residing in the same Paris hotel as Elvis Presley — ends on a typically Fantean note, summing up the writer’s humane vision of life as a struggle worth undergoing: "I choked up at the dignity of man..". Like his forerunner in the school of hard knocks, Knut Hamsum, and his successor in that arduous academy, Charles Bukowski, John Fante delivers truths in a voice we cantrust, because there’s no mistaking he’s "been there".
West of Rome:
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.
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