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Zusatztext Henry Molise! a 50 year old! successful writer! returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical! brick laying father! Nick! though weak and alcoholic! can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother! though ill and devout to her Catholicism! still has the power to comfort and confuse her children. This is typical of Fante's novels! it's autobiographical! and brimming with love! death! violence and religion. Writing with great passion Fante powerfully hits home the damage family can wreck upon us all. Informationen zum Autor Born in Denver on 8 April 1909, John Fante migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Classically out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams, Fante's literary fiction was full of torn grace and redemptive vengeance. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles , Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet . Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles, four years after his death from diabetes-related complications. Klappentext "Fante's maturest, indeed, wisest work." Steve Cooper, from Full of Life, A Biography of John Fante Henry Molise, a 50-year-old successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his elderly parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, bricklaying father, Nick, despite being weakened by age and alcoholism, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, ill and devoutly Catholic, still has the power both to comfort and confuse her children. Nick has been offered a some well-paid work to build a somkehouse in the hills, and Henry, realising this is the last chance for father and son to understand each other, turns his back on his publisher's demands and on the last 30 years of estrangement from his childhood to help the old man. The Brotherhood of the Grape is typical of Fante's novels, it's autobiographical, and brimming with love, death, violence and religion. Writing with great passion Fante powerfully hits home the damage family can wreak upon us all. "Fante was capable of expressing thought and experience with an honesty that was as intimate as it was evocative, and as magical as it was true." Time Out (on Ask the Dust ) "The late John Fante is oneof the great unheralded voices in American fiction." The Face Cover design by James Hutcheson Zusammenfassung Vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion...
