The Road to Los Angeles

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.

Author: John Fante
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 05/31/2002
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780876856499
Language: English