The Brotherhood Of The Grape

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0553119397

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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 : Richard Collins
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550710710

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John Fante by Richard Collins Pdf

John Fante, an important figure in the history of the Italian-American novel, is proving to be fascinating to contemporary readers. Richard Collins has caught Fante's spirit from several crucial angles: as an ethnic writer; as a comic novelist; as a serious writer struggling to remain so in Hollywood. Intelligent, balanced, informative, and empathetic, this book combines criticism with scholarship, and biography with history to make what Henry James would have called a perfect 'literary portrait,' for it gives life to an interesting subject.

Author : Stephen Cooper,David M. Fine
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Kenneth Scambray
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838641170

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Queen Calafia's Paradise by Kenneth Scambray Pdf

In Queen Calafia's Paradise, Ken Scambray explains that California offers Italian American protagonists a unique cultural landscape in which to define what it means to be an American and how Italian American protagonists embark on a voyage to reconcile their Old World heritage with modern American society. In Pasinetti's From the Academy Bridge (1970), Scambray analyzes the influence of Pasinetti's diverse California landscape upon his protagonist. Scambray argues that any reading of Madalena's Confetti for Gino (1959), set in San Diego's Little Italy, must take into account Madalena's homosexuality and his little known homosexual World War II novel, The Invisible Glass (1950). In his chapters covering John Fante's Los Angeles fiction, Scambray explores the Italian American's quest to locate a home in Southern California. Ken Scambray teaches courses in North American Italian literature and Los Angeles fiction at the University of La Verne.

Author : Emanuele Pettener
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683934066

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When We Were Bandini by Emanuele Pettener Pdf

John Fante's work has consistently delved into profound themes, including the elusive American Dream, the delicate psychology of immigrants, and the intricate dynamics of Italian American families. This study reveals the ingenious manner in which Fante employs humor and satire as powerful rhetorical devices to breathe life into his Italian, Italian American, and American characters. Drawing inspiration from literary giants such as Luigi Pirandello and René Girard, the author embarks on a fascinating journey into Fante's rich literary landscape. When We Were Bandini also offers an engaging comparison between Fante's works and those of other authors like Cervantes, Hamsun, Bukowski, and even his own son, Dan Fante. This comparative analysis sheds light on the possible reasons behind Fante's unique status: he is a cult writer in Europe, relatively underappreciated in his home country, the United States. Challenging the conventional notions of Fante as a strictly autobiographical and confessional writer, the author urges readers to look beyond the surface and unravel the layers of his literary genius.

Author : Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Catherine J. Kordich
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015050742686

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John Fante by Catherine J. Kordich Pdf

Fante's depiction of the Italian American experience in California, in novels and novellas like Full of Life and My Dog Stupid, has been recognized as part of the national drama of assimilation and ethnicity. Kordich looks at the life and works of Fante, whose long underground fame has evolved into a mainstream literary readership.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1696 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498397

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Scott Morse
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545600064

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Magic Pickle & The Planet of the Grapes by Scott Morse Pdf

Meet the Magic Pickle, a dilly of a superhero who's fighting the food fight against a brotherhood of evil fruits and vegetables who are plotting to take over the world! Magic Pickle is a secret weapon developed in a secret military lab---under little JoJo Wigwam's bedroom floor. The fearless dill superhero meets his match in this feisty eight-year-old. Together they go after Ray Sin, a renegade raisin from the Brotherhood of Evil Produce. Ray Sin has a dastardly plan: to turn every human being on the planet into big, juicy, mindless grapes, so he can rule the world!

Author : Simone Cinotto
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781479832361

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Soft Soil, Black Grapes by Simone Cinotto Pdf

Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California viticulture one of America’s most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards in the Sonoma hills to the massive industrial wineries of the Central Valley. But how did a small group of nineteenth-century immigrants plant the roots that flourished into a world-class industry? Was there something particularly “Italian” in their success? In this fresh, fascinating account of the ethnic origins of California wine, Simone Cinotto rewrites a century-old triumphalist story. He demonstrates that these Italian visionaries were not skilled winemakers transplanting an immemorial agricultural tradition, even if California did resemble the rolling Italian countryside of their native Piedmont. Instead, Cinotto argues that it was the wine-makers’ access to “social capital,” or the ethnic and familial ties that bound them to their rich wine-growing heritage, and not financial leverage or direct enological experience, that enabled them to develop such a successful and influential wine business. Focusing on some of the most important names in wine history—particularly Pietro Carlo Rossi, Secondo Guasti, and the Gallos—he chronicles a story driven by ambition and creativity but realized in a complicated tangle of immigrant entrepreneurship, class struggle, racial inequality, and a new world of consumer culture. Skillfully blending regional, social, and immigration history, Soft Soil, Black Grapes takes us on an original journey into the cultural construction of ethnic economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and the fully transnational history of American wine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Italian Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113348069

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Italian Americana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106009254704

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Sulfur by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Palgrave
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483455464

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The Brotherhood of Enemies by Charles Palgrave Pdf

Even after the defeat of the Republican Guard and the eviction of Iraq's forces from Kuwait, Saddam Hussein still reigns terror over a cowering population. He is still playing the game of brinkmanship with his old friend and new enemy, the United States of America. Frustrated, the American President and the CIA were eager for a final resolution to Iraq. In 1991 Western allies expected America to go to Baghdad and overthrow Saddam. America proved to be weak - someone will have to do it again. Australian, Major Pat Grady, ex-SAS hostile terrain warfare expert, veteran of Rwanda and the 1991 Gulf War is not prepared for the events about to overtake him. Diagnosed with Leukaemia, Grady is the final piece of a CIA strategy required to bring about the fall of a tyrant and establish a final accord between Western and Middle Eastern protagonists. Grady's experience and his life-threatening medical condition present the American Administration with an acceptable risk opportunity...

Author : Solrac
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617773334

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The Brotherhood of Valcourange by Solrac Pdf

By all appearances, Anko is no more than a sixteen-year-old kid; but looks can be deceiving. Created by the ancient gods, he has lived since the beginning of time; and his true desire is to join them as an equal. In order to do so, however, he must complete a specific set of tasks; so Anko sets out in his quest to climb nine hundred and ninety-nine steps. Each level represents a new challenge and exposes him to unseen dangers placed before him by the jealous god Osiris. Sack Fitzpatrick has lived a sad and isolated existence since the death of his wife and daughters. The last things on his mind are gods and supernatural beings; but a devastating earthquake changes all that when it swallows his house and forces a meeting with Anko. When Anko receives his first task—return to the world of man and rescue three children from the Caucas, despicable spirits created by Osiris but expelled from the underworld by Horus more than a millennium ago—the quest begins. Together, they enter a battle where failure of any sort will have a devastating impact on all mankind. The Brotherhood of Valcourange is book one in Solrac's nine hundred and ninety-nine steps trilogy and will take readers on a mysterious and fantastic journey from the depths of the underworld to the heights of heaven and everywhere else you can imagine.