The Road to Los Angeles - Couverture souple

Fante, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0876856490 ISBN 13 : 9780876856499

Editeur : Ecco, 2002

Synopsis

Book by John Fante

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

John Fante began writing in 1929 and published his first short story in 1932. His first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, was published in 1938 and was the first of his Arturo Bandini series of novels, which also include The Road to Los Angeles and Ask the Dust. A prolific screenwriter, he was stricken with diabetes in 1955. Complications from the disease brought about his blindness in 1978 and, within two years, the amputation of both legs. He continued to write by dictation to his wife, Joyce, and published Dreams from Bunker Hill, the final installment of the Arturo Bandini series, in 1982. He died on May 8, 1983, at the age of seventy-four.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldn’t sleep from the pain in my back. We were digging an excavation in an empty lot, there wasn’t any shade, the sun came straight from a cloudless sky, and I was down in that hole digging with two huskies who dug with a love for it, always laughing and telling jokes, laughing and smoking bitter tobacco.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0876856490
• ISBN 13: 9780876856499
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176