Dreams From Bunker Hill

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013064

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Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante Pdf

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 the west by Bunker Hill, on the east by Los Angeles Street, on the south by Pershing Square, and on the north by Civic Center. I was a busboy nonpareil, with great verve and style for the profession, and though I was dreadfully underpaid (one dollar a day plus meals) I attracted considerable attention as I whirled from table to table, balancing a tray on one hand, and eliciting smiles from my customers. I had something else beside a waiter's skill to offer my patrons, for I was also a writer.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782116004

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The Bandini Quartet by John Fante Pdf

Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013002

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Ask the Dust by John Fante Pdf

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 elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013170

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Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante Pdf

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 patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.

Author : Nathan Marsak
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781626400672

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Bunker Hill Los Angeles by Nathan Marsak Pdf

In 'Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir', historian Nathan Marsak tells the story of the Hill, from the district's inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its present day. Marsak commemorates the poets and writers, artists and activists, little guys and big guys, and of course, the many architects who built and rebuilt the community on the Hill - time after historic time. Any fan of American architecture will treasure Marsak's analysis of buildings that have crowned the Hill: the exuberance of Victorian shingle and spindlework, from Mission to Modern, from Queen Anne to Frank Gehry, Bunker Hill has been home to it all, the ever-changing built environment.

Author : Paolo Giordano,Anthony Julian Tamburri
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838637329

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Beyond the Margin by Paolo Giordano,Anthony Julian Tamburri Pdf

The editors' goal in this book is to give a critical overview of where Italian/American literary and cultural studies are today. To this end, Beyond the Margin includes three types of essays: the characteristics of Italian/American literature and culture in a general sense; specific writers; and film.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062012999

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1933 Was A Bad Year by John Fante Pdf

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 : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013033

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The Brotherhood of the Grape by John Fante Pdf

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 and alcoholic, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, though ill and devout to her Catholicism, still has the power to comfort and confuse her children. This is typical of Fante's novels, it's autobiographical, and brimming with love, death, violence and religion. Writing with great passion Fante powerfully hits home the damage family can wreck upon us all.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Rebel Incorporated Classics
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bandini, Arturo (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1841950491

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The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Pdf

Author : Stephen Cooper,David M. Fine
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838637787

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John Fante by Stephen Cooper,David M. Fine Pdf

Over the span of a half-century - from the early 1930s to the early 1980s - the Italian-American Fante (1909-1983) wrote short stories and novels that drew on his own life from his Catholic childhood in Colorado through his down-and-out days in Los Angeles, to his adventures as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He writes about all these things with gusto, humor, directness, and an honesty tinged with the irony of a true modernist."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013217

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The Wine of Youth by John Fante Pdf

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 : John Fante
Publisher : Christian Bourgois Editeur
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2267004135

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Reves de Bunker Hill by John Fante Pdf

" N'empêche, qu'il reste une œuvre, pour nous vierge comme la neige et à découvrir - un de ces petits lopins de terra incognita qui demeurent encore dans la littérature américaine et qu'on pourrait facilement réclamer, en homestead, pour le prix d'un dollar. Il se trouve que justement ce lopin se trouve sur Bunker Hill, à deux pas de chez moi, à deux livres de chez vous, pour peu qu'on s'aventure à les traduire dans toute leur verve et leur violence - ce style de Fante qui a fait des petits depuis, ce style qui fait péter les morts hors de leur gongs et livre le bonhomme dans toute sa pétulance, ses ridicules et sa grandeur. "Los Angeles, give me some of you ! Los Angeles, come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town. " Il faut en avoir sacrément dans la culotte pour s'abandonner de la sorte, donner libre cours aux miasmes de ses émotions - et appeler Los Angeles "pretty town".

Author : John Patrick Davey
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452015651

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Dark Side of Bunker Hill by John Patrick Davey Pdf

The death of an old lady in Cambridge sets off a pattern of deadly behavior leading to the murder of a retired Judge on Boston's Bunker Hill and the mysterious death of a disbarred attorney. An illegal plan to take over a multi million dollar insurance trust falls apart when the planners allow blackmail and greed to develop into murder. The plot from the beginning, is peopled by characters intent on cheating each other forgetting that main prize is the trust's millions managed by a trio of old men. In turn they stun the conspirators by pulling a clever scheme of `bait and switch' surpassing the ingenuity of their antagonists. The locus is Boston and it's Homicide Unit which leads the reader through the old city's `Freedom Trail' after the killers.

Author : Jessica Gunderson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434297013

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A Rebel Among Redcoats by Jessica Gunderson Pdf

Young Maggie Tinsdale fights for the patriot cause in this novel set in the Revolutionary War era.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 192578844X

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Full of Life by John Fante Pdf

'The world's bleakest romantic comedy' - Los Angeles Times The narrator of John Fante's extravagant domestic comedy, who lives in Los Angeles, finds himself a home-owner and expectant father almost simultaneously and both sensations please him. It must be granted that there are certain adjustments to be made ...