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    Ask the Dust

    John Fante

    Originally published: Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, c1980.

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    Wait Until Spring, Bandini

    John Fante

    A rediscovered classic about frustrated masculinity in America’s Great Depression.

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    Ask The Dust

    John Fante

    One of the great novels of LA, a semi-autobiographical story of a struggling writer.

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    John Fante

    Catherine J Kordich

    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…

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    The John Fante Reader

    John Fante,Stephen Cooper (Queen S University Belfast Department of Psychiatry Northern Ireland United Kingdom)

    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…

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    La Hermandad de la Uva

    John Fante

    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. Typical of Fante’s novels, it’s…

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    Bandini

    John Fante

    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. Though his physical escape is complete…

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    Brotherhood Of The Grape

    John Fante

    Vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion

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    1933 Was A Bad Year

    John Fante

    A wonderful tale of childhood and its dissipation into adulthood from the man who inspired Bukowski

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    Dreams from Bunker Hill

    John Fante

    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…

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    The Wine of Youth

    John Fante

    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.

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    1933 Was a Bad Year

    John Fante

    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.

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    West of Rome

    John Fante

    Tells the stories of a struggling screenwriter who takes in a stray dog, and a young boy who becomes disillusioned by his father’s atheist co-worker.

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    Full of Life

    John Fante

    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.

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    Wait Until Spring, Bandini

    John Fante

    A rediscovered classic about frustrated masculinity in America’s Great Depression

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    The Road to Los Angeles

    John Fante

    Japanese edition of [The Road to Los Angeles] by John Fante. This novel introduces Fante’s alter ego Arturo Bandini who reappears in Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Ask the Dust…

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    The Brotherhood of the Grape

    John Fante

    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…

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    Big Hunter

    John Fante

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

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    Hambre

    John Fante

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    Ask the Dust

    John Fante

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    John Fante’s Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views

    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…

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    John Fante’s Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views

    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…

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    John Fante: Camino de los suenos diurnos

    Juan Arabia

    La obra de John Fante se circunscribe a topicos, estilos, experiencias, ideales y propositos que se presentan (y reproducen) a lo largo de la historia de la literatura norteamericana. Las…

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    The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill

    John Fante

    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…

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    Collectable Rickenbacker Value and Reference Guide 2007

    John Minutaglio,Steven Fant

    Collectable Rickenbacker Value and Reference Guide 2007 is not only a richly illustrated photographic journey throught the history of these amazing American made works or art, it is also an…

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