Dreams From Bunker Hill

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.

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.

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 194 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.

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:

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 179 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.

Download or read book Full of Life written by John Fante and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dark Side of Bunker Hill written by John Patrick Davey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of an old lady in Cambridge sets off a pattern of deadly behavior leading to the murder of a retired Judge on Boston's Bunker Hill and the mysterious death of a disbarred attorney. An illegal plan to take over a multi million dollar insurance trust falls apart when the planners allow blackmail and greed to develop into murder. The plot from the beginning, is peopled by characters intent on cheating each other forgetting that main prize is the trust's millions managed by a trio of old men. In turn they stun the conspirators by pulling a clever scheme of `bait and switch' surpassing the ingenuity of their antagonists. The locus is Boston and it's Homicide Unit which leads the reader through the old city's `Freedom Trail' after the killers.