John Fante

  • 1933 Was a Bad Year

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    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.

    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: June 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 0876856555
    • Language: English
  • The Wine of Youth

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    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.”

    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 0876855826
    • Language: English
  • Dreams from Bunker Hill

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    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

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    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: August 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 0876855281
    • Language: English
  • The Brotherhood of the Grape

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    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

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    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: August 16 2002
    • ISBN10: 0876857268
    • Language: English
  • Full of Life

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    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.

    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 0876857187
    • Language: English
  • Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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    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 pa

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    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: August 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 0876855540
    • Language: English
  • The Road to Los Angeles

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    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 slee

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    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: May 31 2002
    • ISBN10: 0876856490
    • Language: English
  • Ask the Dust

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    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 e

    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: February 07, 2006
    • ISBN10: 0060822554
    • Language: English
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