Dreams From Bunker Hill

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013068
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams from Bunker Hill written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twenty-one years old, living in a world bounded on the west by Bunker Hill, on the east by Los Angeles Street, on the south by Pershing Square, and on the north by Civic Center. I was a busboy nonpareil, with great verve and style for the profession, and though I was dreadfully underpaid (one dollar a day plus meals) I attracted considerable attention as I whirled from table to table, balancing a tray on one hand, and eliciting smiles from my customers. I had something else beside a waiter's skill to offer my patrons, for I was also a writer.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013009
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ask the Dust written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782116001
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bandini Quartet written by John Fante and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised.

Author : Nathan Marsak
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1626400679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bunker Hill Los Angeles written by Nathan Marsak and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir', historian Nathan Marsak tells the story of the Hill, from the district's inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its present day. Marsak commemorates the poets and writers, artists and activists, little guys and big guys, and of course, the many architects who built and rebuilt the community on the Hill - time after historic time. Any fan of American architecture will treasure Marsak's analysis of buildings that have crowned the Hill: the exuberance of Victorian shingle and spindlework, from Mission to Modern, from Queen Anne to Frank Gehry, Bunker Hill has been home to it all, the ever-changing built environment.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013173
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wait Until Spring, Bandini written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062012991
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1933 Was A Bad Year written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Rebel Incorporated Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781841950495
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Los Angeles written by John Fante and published by Rebel Incorporated Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013033
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Grape written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013211
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wine of Youth written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the legendary Dago Red, first published in 1940, contains seven new stories, including "A Nun No More" and "My Father’s God."

Author : Christian Di Spigna
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 055341934X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Founding Martyr written by Christian Di Spigna and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and illuminating biography of America’s forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and major general who fomented rebellion and died heroically at the battle of Bunker Hill on the brink of revolution Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Yet after his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence. Christian Di Spigna’s definitive new biography of Warren is a loving work of historical excavation, the product of two decades of research and scores of newly unearthed primary-source documents that have given us this forgotten Founding Father anew. Following Warren from his farming childhood and years at Harvard through his professional success and political radicalization to his role in sparking the rebellion, Di Spigna’s thoughtful, judicious retelling not only restores Warren to his rightful place in the pantheon of Revolutionary greats, it deepens our understanding of the nation’s dramatic beginnings.