About the Book

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.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780876856499
• ISBN 10: 0876856490
• Imprint: Ecco
• On Sale: 05/31/2002
• Pages: 176
• List Price:21.00 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy
• BISAC2 : FICTION / Erotica / General
• BISAC3 : FICTION / Coming of Age
• BISAC4 : FICTION / City Life

John Fante

Biography

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.

Other Works by John Fante

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  Ask the Dust

  By John Fante

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  The John Fante Reader

  By John Fante

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  Dreams from Bunker Hill

  By John Fante