John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent.
By far, his most popular novel is the semi-autobiographical Ask the Dust, the third book in what is now referred to as "The Saga of Arturo Bandini" or "The Bandini Quartet". Bandini served as his alter ego in a total of four novels: Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), The Road to Los Angeles (chronologically, this is the first novel Fante wrote but it was unpublished until 1985), Ask the Dust (1939), and finally Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982), which was dictated to his wife, Joyce, towards the end of his life. Fante's use of Bandini as his alter ego can be compared to Charles Bukowski's character, Henry Chinaski. Bukowski was heavily influenced by John Fante.
In the late 1970s, at the suggestion of novelist and poet Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press began to republish the (then out-of-print) works of Fante, creating a resurgence in his popularity.
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Ask the dust
8 editions - first published in 1939 Borrow -
Wait until spring, Bandini
6 editions - first published in 1938 Borrow -
The wine of youth: selected stories
5 editions - first published in 1984 -
The brotherhood of the grape: a novel
4 editions - first published in 1977 -
The road to Los Angeles
3 editions - first published in 1985 Borrow -
Dreams from Bunker Hill
3 editions - first published in 1982 Borrow -
Ask the Dust (P.S.)
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Le vin de la jeunesse
2 editions - first published in 1986 -
Bandini
2 editions - first published in 1991 -
Mon chien stupide
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
1933 was a bad year
2 editions - first published in 1985 -
Full of life
2 editions - first published in 1952 -
Grosse faim: Nouvelles 1932-1959
2 editions - first published in 2001 -
La route de los angeles
2 editions - first published in 1990 -
The John Fante reader
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
Wait Until Spring Bandini
1 edition - first published in 2009 Borrow -
Romans. 3
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
The Bandini Quartet
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Romans, tome 1: La Route de Los Angeles - Bandini - Demande à la poussière
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
West of Rome: two novellas
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Espera a la Primavera, Bandini
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Un Ano Pesimo (Panorama de Narrativas)
1 edition - first published in 2005 -
Dago red
1 edition - first published in 1940 -
Correspondance, 1930-1952
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Camino de Los Angeles
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Ich - Arturo Bandini
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Rêves de Bunker Hill
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Bravo, Burro!
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Romans, tome 2: Le Vin de la jeunesse - L'Orgie - Pleins de vie
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
La Hermandad de La Uva
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Fante/Mencken: John Fante & H.L. Mencken : a personal correspondence, 1930-1952
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Demande a la poussiere
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Selected letters, 1932-1981
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Grundwissen 2. Fachwirte, Fachkaufleute, Betriebswirte
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
L'Orgie suici de "1933 fut une mauvaise année"
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Prologue to Ask the dust
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Les compagnons de la grappe
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
L'orgie
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
The big hunger: stories, 1932-1959
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Suenos de Bunker Hill
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Toza Sor
1 edition - first published in 2011
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