The Road to Los Angeles Contributor(s): Fante, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0876856490 ISBN-13: 9780876856499 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2002 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Romance - Romantic Comedy |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 85015098 |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
Themes: - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fante, John: - 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. |