Fante Bukowski 2

Author : Noah Van Sciver
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683962854

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The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski by Noah Van Sciver Pdf

Collects all three volumes of the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novels series, which skewers a self-important male literary poser. Living in a beat-up motel and consorting with the downtrodden as well as the mid-level literati, Fante Bukowski must overcome great obstacles ― a love interest turned rival, ghostwriting a teen celebrity's memoirs, no actual talent ― to gain the respect and adoration from critics and, more importantly, his father. Van Sciver has created a scathing, hilarious, and empathetic character study of a self-styled author determined that he's just one more poem (or drink) away from success. The book includes a foreward by novelist Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife), a facsimile reproduction of Bukowski's literary debut, 6 Poems (thought lost to time in the wake of a motel fire that destroyed the entire original print run), a "Works Cited" section, and a selection of "visual tributes" by over two dozen cartoonists including Nina Bunjevac, Simon Hanselmann, Jesse Jacobs, Ed Piskor, Leslie Stein, and others.

Author : Noah Van Sciver
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781683960010

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Fante Bukowski 2 by Noah Van Sciver Pdf

This graphic novella catches up with aspiring young writer Fante Bukowski one year later; he’s attempting to establish himself in a new city’s literary scene, self-publishing his first zine, and coming to terms with his feelings for an old friend. Fante Bukowski yearns for success as the great American novelist, and to get respect from his father once and for all. But, there’s just one problem: he still has no talent for writing.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823287888

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John Fante's Ask the Dust by Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato Pdf

This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact. The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings. A must-read for aficionados of L.A. fiction and new migration literature, John Fante’s “Ask the Dust”: A Joining of Voices and Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante studies to reveal the novel’s evolving intertextualities and intersectionalities. Contributors: Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, Giovanna DiLello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Philippe Garnier, Robert Guffey, Ryan Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams

Author : Patricio Maya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986273406

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Walking Around with Fante and Bukowski and Other Essays by Patricio Maya Pdf

Maya's riveting debut collection of essays takes the reader by the heart and throat, and never lets go. Part poetic autobiography, part harbinger of a new critical sensibility to emerge from colliding world cultures, Walking Around with Fante and Bukowski fuses a poet's fire and a journalist's unblinking eye. The essays here unfold as entertainingly as novels. The title piece, "Walking Around with Fante and Bukowski," is a gripping quest to find a remnant of a lost-and-found L.A. literary masterpiece. "Staring into Vaginas," looks at the photographic legacy of a seedy Hollywood strip club and lays bare the rite of strip-tease hidden inside the male psyche. The haunting "It's Always Quiet in the End" celebrates poetry and friendship, and brings us face to face with one of life's deepest secrets. "The New Democracy Struggle" tells the story of three pioneering world bloggers as they fight for democracy in Cuba, China and Iran. "The Brightest, Bluest Swimming Pool Water," is an evocative mosaic-memoir of the writer's cultural dislocation: a one-way jet flight from Ecuador to California at an early age. These and several other pieces written in a prose that charms and dazzles while tackling the big issues of death, ethics, freedom and the purpose of life, make this book an electrifying journey not to be missed.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013187

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West of Rome by John Fante Pdf

West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano, and he did not believe in God. He was that most singular and startling craftsman of the building trade-a left-handed bricklayer. Like my father, Frank came from Torcella Peligna, a cliff-hugging town in the Abruzzi. Lean as a spider, he wore a leather cap and puttees the year around, and he was so bowlegged a dog could lope between his knees without touching them."

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : 171 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Noah Van Sciver
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606998175

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Saint Cole by Noah Van Sciver Pdf

This sophomore graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver may seem like a left turn from his critically acclaimed debut graphic novel biography of Abraham Lincoln (The Hypo), yet upon closer reflection, it showcases Van Sciver’s preoccupation with pathos and the human condition. Saint Cole depicts four days in the life of a twenty-eight-year-old suburbanite named Joe, who works at a pizzeria to support his girlfriend Nicole and their infant child―and then Nicole invites her troubled mother to move into their two-bedroom apartment until she lands on her feet again. Joe reacts by retreating into alcohol: he wants out, and he's angry. He’s in a position to act rashly―and he does.

Author : Noah van Sciver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3964450367

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Fante Bukowski by Noah van Sciver Pdf

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Random House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448114153

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Pulp by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he's been hired to do. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Celine - who's meant to be dead - but he's also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow - which may or may not be real.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Noah Van Sciver
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781683961314

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Fante Bukowski Three by Noah Van Sciver Pdf

After another year of living in the great American Midwest, self-styled erudite and superstar-to-be Fante Bukowski has a final showdown between his father and his dreams, is hired to ghostwrite a teen celebrity’s memoir, and attends his first local zine fest. Meanwhile, there are hidden forces working behind the scenes to push Fante Bukowski into the critical and financial success he’s always longed for, despite his continued lack of talent.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Rebel Incorporated Classics
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bandini, Arturo (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1841950491

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The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Pdf

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,9 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.