The John Fante Reader
By John Fante
()
About this ebook
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.
John Fante
John Fante began writing in 1929 and published his first short story in 1932. His first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, was published in 1938 and was the first of his Arturo Bandini series of novels, which also include The Road to Los Angeles and Ask the Dust. A prolific screenwriter, he was stricken with diabetes in 1955. Complications from the disease brought about his blindness in 1978 and, within two years, the amputation of both legs. He continued to write by dictation to his wife, Joyce, and published Dreams from Bunker Hill, the final installment of the Arturo Bandini series, in 1982. He died on May 8, 1983, at the age of seventy-four.
Read more from John Fante
Dreams from Bunker Hill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Full of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wine of Youth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Brotherhood of the Grape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5West of Rome Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Big Hunger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The John Fante Reader
Related ebooks
The Wine of Youth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prose Poetry - Volume 1: “Always be a poet, even in prose.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInside John Barth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSubduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Xenotext: Book 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cruise of the Snark Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Terrible Fours Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Iron Heel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dawn of Day by Friedrich Nietzsche - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAtmospheres Apollinaire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelected Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa Maison de Rendez-vous and Djinn: Two Novels Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Golden Bowl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWest of Rome Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under Suspicion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmnesiascope: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Auguste Rodin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSkywriting by Word of Mouth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA COMPANION TO MEKAS WALDEN Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Planetarium Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dream Life of Balso Snell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDreams and Dust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lute and the Scars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Fiction For You
The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Handmaid's Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tender Is the Flesh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Birds: Erotica Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5East of Eden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Thinking of Ending Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Nigerwife: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Women Talking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pride and Prejudice: Bestsellers and famous Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Piranesi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The John Fante Reader
0 ratings0 reviews