The Brotherhood of the Grape - Couverture rigide

Fante, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0876857284 ISBN 13 : 9780876857281

Editeur : Black Sparrow Pr, 1988

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

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Black Sparrow Pr
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0876857284
• ISBN 13: 9780876857281
• Reliure: Relié