- Arturo Bandini (Fictitious character), Authors, Fiction, Literature
Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a single short story published in a small magazine, he meets local waitress Camilla Lopez and they embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship/ Slowly, but inexorably, it descends into the realms of madness.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- John Fante, John Fante
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press, Canongate Books Ltd, Stackpole sons
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780586064245
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“I was a young man, starving and drinking and trying to be a writer.”
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Spring, Bandini* (1938), *The Road to Los Angeles* (chronologically, this is the first novel Fante wrote but it was unpublished until 1985), *Ask the Dust* (1939), and finally *Dreams from Bunker Hill* (1982), which was dictated to his wife, Joyce, towards the end of his life.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 char
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