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West of Rome (Paperback): John Fante West of Rome (Paperback)
John Fante
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R474 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R76 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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."

1933 Was a Bad Year (Paperback): John Fante 1933 Was a Bad Year (Paperback)
John Fante
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R366 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R60 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Full of Life (Paperback, 2nd ed.): John Fante Full of Life (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
John Fante
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R447 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R50 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Big Hunter (Paperback): John Fante Big Hunter (Paperback)
John Fante
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R526 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R58 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.

Wait Until Spring, Bandini (Paperback): John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini (Paperback)
John Fante
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R509 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R78 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Ask The Dust (Paperback, Main - Canons reissue): John Fante Ask The Dust (Paperback, Main - Canons reissue)
John Fante; Introduction by Charles Bukowski 1
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R341 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R107 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Arturo Bandini arrives in Los Angeles with big dreams. But the reality he finds is a city gripped by poverty. When he makes a small fortune from the publication of a short story, he reinvents himself, indulging in expensive clothes, fine food and downtown strip clubs. But Bandini's delusions take a worrying turn when he is drawn into a relationship with Camilla Lopez, a beautiful but troubled young woman who will be responsible for his greatest downfall. Ask the Dust is an unforgettable novel about outsiders looking in on a town built on celluloid dreams.

The Brotherhood of the Grape (Paperback, New edition): John Fante The Brotherhood of the Grape (Paperback, New edition)
John Fante
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R473 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Wait Until Spring, Bandini (Paperback, Main - Canons): John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini (Paperback, Main - Canons)
John Fante; Introduction by Dan Fante 1
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R341 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R106 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression, the winter proves harsh. When his father seemingly abandons his family, Arturo is left to pick up the pieces, even as turmoil rages within him. With its evocative account of grinding poverty, tragic love affairs and tumultuous adolescence, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.

The Wine of Youth (Paperback): John Fante The Wine of Youth (Paperback)
John Fante
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R430 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R67 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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."

Ask the Dust (Paperback): John Fante Ask the Dust (Paperback)
John Fante
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R223 R171 Discovery Miles 1 710 Save R52 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"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's Ask the Dust - A Joining of Voices and Views (Paperback): Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato John Fante's Ask the Dust - A Joining of Voices and Views (Paperback)
Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato; Contributions by Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, …
R1,039 R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Save R97 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

Brotherhood Of The Grape (Paperback, Main): John Fante Brotherhood Of The Grape (Paperback, Main)
John Fante
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R177 Discovery Miles 1 770 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

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.

The Road to Los Angeles (Paperback): John Fante The Road to Los Angeles (Paperback)
John Fante
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R525 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R112 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldn't sleep from the pain in my back. We were digging an excavation in an empty lot, there wasn't any shade, the sun came straight from a cloudless sky, and I was down in that hole digging with two huskies who dug with a love for it, always laughing and telling jokes, laughing and smoking bitter tobacco.

John Fante's Ask the Dust - A Joining of Voices and Views (Hardcover): Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato John Fante's Ask the Dust - A Joining of Voices and Views (Hardcover)
Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato; Contributions by Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, …
R3,113 R2,895 Discovery Miles 28 950 Save R218 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

1933 Was A Bad Year (Paperback, Main): John Fante 1933 Was A Bad Year (Paperback, Main)
John Fante 2
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R296 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R67 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Bandini Quartet - Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill (Paperback,... The Bandini Quartet - Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill (Paperback, Main)
John Fante; Introduction by Dan Fante, Charles Bukowski
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R526 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R92 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Suenos de Bunker Hill (English, Spanish, Paperback): John Fante Suenos de Bunker Hill (English, Spanish, Paperback)
John Fante
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R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dreams from Bunker Hill (Paperback): John Fante Dreams from Bunker Hill (Paperback)
John Fante
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R470 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R59 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Preguntale Al Polvo (English, Spanish, Paperback): Charles Bukowski, John Fante Preguntale Al Polvo (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Charles Bukowski, John Fante
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R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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