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Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Fante s writing is rich and fluid, bandini is frustrating and honest, but the novel is largely forgettable in comparison to bandini 1 and 3. Thompsons novel the rum diary, which was published after the fear and loathing sagas made him famous, john fante would have no. This is fante s best novel and one of the funniest most enjoyable books i have read to date. It introduces young arturo bandini in his early writing. However, the book was not published until after his death and is considered to be a sequel in the bandini series. Wait until spring, bandini 1938 was the first novel in the bandini quartet published in 1938. John fante began his first novel in the winter of 1933 and planned to have it. I read it in one day loved it and subsequently read. Its not difficult to see why it remained unpublished during fantes lifetime. John fante april 8, 1909 may 8, 1983 was an american novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Wed love you to buy this book, and hope you find this page convenient in locating a place of purchase. Fante was not very well known in his time, but his work was revived later. This is fantes best novel and one of the funniest most enjoyable books i.

The publishers rejected it and it was published about 50 years later by black sparrow press after the authors death. An ugly little debut with first novel written all over it. The novel is one of four featuring fantes alter ego arturo bandini. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after i graduated from h. Not because its always thrusting you away like an unwanted orphan as john fante once put it, but because its difficult to understand. His style of prose is unadorned, and his dialogue is colloquial. It was written in 1936, but was published posthumously in 1985 by black sparrow press. No fiction writer made a bigger impact on me this year and there were no book i enjoyed reading more or read faster than fantes books. Unfortunately, the young bandini is, plain and simple, a twit. John fante books list of books by author john fante. Sure there is a lot to likethe weather, the food, the spacebut love requires something deeper.