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The Bandini Quartet
Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill
Taschenbuch von John Fante
Sprache: Englisch

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"Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his rediscovery is not before time." Times Literary Supplement

With introductions by Charles Bukowski and John Fante

One of the great outsider figures of twentieth-century literature, John Fante possessed a style of deceptive simplicity, full of emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point. Among the novels, short stories and screenplays that comprised his career, Fante's crowning accomplishments were, for many, his four stories about a
certain uncomplicated character from the hills of Abruzzi. Collected together in one volume for the first time, The Bandini Quartet tells of Arturo Bandini, Fante's fictional alter ego, an impoverished young Italian-American who, armed with only a Jesuit high school education and the insane desire to write novels, escapes his suffocating home in Colorado to seek glory in a Depression-era Los Angeles. This edition also includes the first-ever UK publication of Dreams From Bunker Hill, the brilliant and final novel which a blind and wheelchair- bound Fante, nearing his death bed, dictated to his wife Joyce.

"A tough and beautifully realised tale . . . affecting, powerful and poignant stuff." Time Out

"John Fante knew how to make words sing. When he was on form, he could write sentences that stopped time." Uncut

"John Fante takes some beating . . . mean, moody, disturbing and intensely atmospheric." The Times

Design by James Hutcheson

"Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his rediscovery is not before time." Times Literary Supplement

With introductions by Charles Bukowski and John Fante

One of the great outsider figures of twentieth-century literature, John Fante possessed a style of deceptive simplicity, full of emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point. Among the novels, short stories and screenplays that comprised his career, Fante's crowning accomplishments were, for many, his four stories about a
certain uncomplicated character from the hills of Abruzzi. Collected together in one volume for the first time, The Bandini Quartet tells of Arturo Bandini, Fante's fictional alter ego, an impoverished young Italian-American who, armed with only a Jesuit high school education and the insane desire to write novels, escapes his suffocating home in Colorado to seek glory in a Depression-era Los Angeles. This edition also includes the first-ever UK publication of Dreams From Bunker Hill, the brilliant and final novel which a blind and wheelchair- bound Fante, nearing his death bed, dictated to his wife Joyce.

"A tough and beautifully realised tale . . . affecting, powerful and poignant stuff." Time Out

"John Fante knew how to make words sing. When he was on form, he could write sentences that stopped time." Uncut

"John Fante takes some beating . . . mean, moody, disturbing and intensely atmospheric." The Times

Design by James Hutcheson

Über den Autor
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. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles, four years after his death from diabetes-related complications.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 749
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781841954974
ISBN-10: 1841954977
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fante, John
Hersteller: Canongate Books Ltd.
Maße: 195 x 130 x 48 mm
Von/Mit: John Fante
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2004
Gewicht: 0,558 kg
preigu-id: 102485741
Über den Autor
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. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles, four years after his death from diabetes-related complications.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 749
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781841954974
ISBN-10: 1841954977
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fante, John
Hersteller: Canongate Books Ltd.
Maße: 195 x 130 x 48 mm
Von/Mit: John Fante
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2004
Gewicht: 0,558 kg
preigu-id: 102485741
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