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The Bandini Quartet

By John Fante

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The Bandini Quartet

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
749
Release Date:
2004-06-21
Publication Date:
2004-06-21
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1841954977
ISBN13:
9781841954974
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
558 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
48 cm
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