Gin pissing, raw meat, dual carburettor v-8 son-of-a-bitch from los angeles, Fante, Dan

Автор: Fante, John
Название: Bandini quartet
ISBN: 1841954977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841954974
Издательство: Canongate
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Описание: Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, the author`s crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy.

Автор: Fante Dan
Название: Spitting Off Tall Buildings
ISBN: 0061779237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061779237
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 12870.00 T
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Описание: Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86'd, Dan Fante's Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the story of aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, who leaves sunny Los Angeles for cold, hard New York City. Falling into a string of temporary, dead-end jobs, punctuated by meaningless affairs and intense drinking, Bruno has almost had enough when a sudden event offers him the opportunity to get his life back on track--unless screwing up, like drinking, proves a habit too difficult to shake. In prose steeped with rage and surprising humor, Fante presents a point of view of America that only the true outlaw will recognize.--The Times (London)

Автор: Fante Dan
Название: Point Doom
ISBN: 006222901X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062229014
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Автор: Fante Dan
Название: Short Dog: Cab Driver Stories from the L.A. Streets
ISBN: 1574232495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781574232493
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 14670.00 T
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"Soaked in booze and sadness, psychotic eruptions and hilarity."--Willy Vlautin

In the freewheeling, debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski, a taxi driver's stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeles--with an introduction by Willy Vlautin. "Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw."--The New York Times.

Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool, of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog (the title is street slang for a half-pint of alcohol):

I had been back working a cabbie gig as a result of my need for money. And insanity.

Hack driver is the only occupation I know about with no boss, and because I have always performed poorly at supervised employment, I returned to the taxi business. The up side, now that I was working again, was that my own boozing was under control and I was on beer only, except for my days off.

Fante was the son of famed novelist and screenwriter John Fante, but as the Los Angeles Times wrote, the younger Fante "... allows us a glimpse of the Southern California demimonde that surely escaped his father's attention."

These outsider stories are raw, vivid, and brutally honest. But even when the stories are fueled by anger and disgust, they are punctuated by unexpectedly funny and dark-humored vignettes. Short Dog is for readers ready for a cab ride on the wild side.

Автор: Fante John
Название: The Road to Los Angeles
ISBN: 0876856490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780876856499
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11140.00 T
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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.

Автор: Dan Fante
Название: Mooch
ISBN: 1841950696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841950693
Издательство: Canongate
Цена: 9900.00 T
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Описание: Bruno Dante is trying to straighten out selling printer supplies for a company ruled by a straight, militaristic disciplinarian. Unfortunately for Bruno, a former gangbanger, lap-dancer and crackhead called Jimmi turns up and soon he's back in free fall.

Автор: Dan Fante
Название: Chump Change
ISBN: 1841950122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841950129
Издательство: Canongate
Цена: 6920.00 T
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Описание: Of the common movement disorders, dystonia is perhaps the most misunderstood and least clinically recognised. The clinical signs and symptoms manifested in patients with various dystonic disorders are extremely varied. With chapters contributed by experts from both sides of the Atlantic, this textbook offers a comprehensive review of the pathogenesis of dystonia, an overview of the classification of the various dystonic disorders, as well as a summary of the latest developments in treatment, including emerging pharmacological therapies and use of botulinum toxin.

Автор: Fante, John
Название: Ask the Dust
ISBN: 0060822554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060822552
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11830.00 T
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Описание: A reissue of the acclaimed novel from one of the 20th century’s greatest and most influential wirters.

Автор: Fante John
Название: Full of Life
ISBN: 1925788296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925788297
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'The world's bleakest romantic comedy' -- Los Angeles Times

"An exuberant, extravagant chronicle of gestation which romps through to the final production of the Fante's firstborn in high Italianate style and immerses a succession of hair-raising to breast-beating sequences in tears -- and Chianti."--Kirkus

"The universe of John Fante's fiction is so immediately moving, so poetically vivid, that it is hard to decide which is the greater quandary: that it went so long unrecognized, or that in the factitious worlds of publishing and Hollywood it is receiving such enormous recognition today."--Boston Review

"Fante's disturbing, singular writing stands absolutely alone among American Depression and mid-century writers. He was always the equal, and often the better, of his recognized contemporaries: Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, West, Schulberg."--Neil Gordon

"Charming and hilarious"--Salon

"Fante's best writing ... astonishingly wide-ranging and compressed"--London Review of Books

Dear Reader, if you have ever been a member of a family that has ever been "in a family way" this is your book.

The narrator of this extravagant domestic comedy, who lives in Los Angeles, finds himself a home-owner and expectant father almost simultaneously and both sensations please him. It must be granted that there are certain adjustments to be made. One is to work out an amicable arrangement with his wife Joyce, who changes from a serene and reasonable companion to an unpredictable creature of compulsions and obsessions, furiously resenting any implication that her "condition" (a word she hates anyway) might be responsible. Aesthetically too, Joyce creates a problem for her sensitive husband, symbolised by her switch from a magical perfume called "Fernery at Twilight" to "a kind of Gayelord Hauser cologne, reeking of just plain good health, clean alcohol and simple soap."

But it is the termites' ravishment of the kitchen floor that helps the Fante family in an uproar for the rest of the confinement.

First Papa Nick Fante must be fetched - the best bricklayer in California. At his parents' house, it only take a few minutes for John to become aware that the child expected 'must' be a boy. No two ways about it. Unthinkable for the Fantes to be without a grandson. Against the obdurate reliance of his Papa and Mama on homemade insurance he is helpless: eggs and oysters are fine, but garlic in the keyhole and salt in the bed just can't be beaten.

The return train trip with Papa is a hilarious nightmare, complete with tool kit, wine jugs, salami and goat cheese. Papa Fante is equipped with a violent Italian temper as well, and a sly knowledge of everyone's soft and sore spots, which knowledge he exploits shamelessly.

Back in Los Angeles the caved in floor (it had sunk under Joyce' weight) is ignored and he decides to build a fireplace instead - "for his first grandson." The story of Uncle Mingo and the bandits must be preserved - "for his grandson" - and Papa and Joyce enter into a smug conspiracy that threatens to break up the household.

The sight of the pregnant Joyce enchants her father-in-law. He adored the "voluptuous roundness that contained a part of him too," says the vastly impressed and also somewhat depressed husband. "You could see him tremble before it, giddy with joy, this extension of himself, the projection of his life far beyond the limits of his years upon the earth. I knew suddenly that even the birth of his own children had not held the romance and excitement of this child's coming."