Full of Life (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Cooper
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1909-1983
- Setting: Denver, Colorado; Southern California; and Italy
- Principal Characters: John Fante, Joyce Fante, Carey McWilliams
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, California, Los Angeles, Colorado, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Hollywood, Italy or Italians, 1900’s
- Locales: California, Denver, CO, Italy
John Fante is the author of two novels which have achieved almost cult status since they were reprinted by Santa Barbara’s Black Sparrow Press in the 1980’s: Ask the Dust (1939/1980) and Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938/1983). For many readers, these two novels rank with the fiction of Raymond Chandler or Nathanael West in uncovering the gritty life of Depression-era Los Angeles. The poet and novelist Charles Bukowski has called Ask the Dust “the finest novel written in all time,” and Robert Towne (screenwriter of the 1974 film Chinatown) claims that...
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