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"Fante had a mighty effect upon me. Fante was my god." CHARLES BUKOWSKI

"Tender and lyrical ... its humour is wry and forgiving and its stylistic energy compelling." THE GUARDIAN

"John Fante knew how to make words sing. When he was on form, he could write sentences that stopped time, deliver descriptions that stank of impossible truths and create word paintings that deserved to be framed and hung." UNCUT

JOHN FANTE

THE ROAD TO LOS ANGELES

Introduced by JOHN KING

The Road to Los Angeles was John Fante's first novel, written in 1933, where he introduced readers to the brash young Arturo Bandini. Bandini is a self-proclaimed genius, a Nietzchean superman, knocking on the door of literary fame and fortune, surrounded by ignorance and fools. Or so he likes to believe, as he flits from menial job to job, despising all whose views are beneath him.

In this savage, uncompromising debut novel Fante has written a coming-of-age classic which easily compares with The Catcher in the Rye but predates it by several decades. This is the first in the four-book Arturo Bandini cycle of novels and was discovered posthumously among his papers in 1983.

ISBN 1-84195-049-1

г6.99

Design: Angus Hyland @ Pentagram Photography: Peter Ross й 2000

A REBEL INC CLASSIC

THE ROAD TO LOS ANGELES

Born in Denver on 8 April 1909, John Fante migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Classically out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams, Fante's literary fiction was full of torn grace and redemptive vengeance. His first published novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini appeared in 1938, followed in 1939 by Ask the Dust. Fante also wrote several collections of short stories and numerous screenplays, including Full of Life and Walk on the Wild Side. He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN, Los Angeles, four years after his death from diabetes-related complications.

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By John Fante

The Saga of Arturo Bandini:

The Road to Los Angeles Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Ask the Dust Dreams from Bunker Hill

Dago Red Full of Life

Brotherhood of the Grape

The Wine of Youth: Selected

Stories of John Fante

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