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The Bandini Quartet
Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill
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The Bandini Quartet
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.
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This quartet of novels tells 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. However, though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire, and the knowledge that his talent may not be recognised.
The Bandini Quartet offers a compelling exploration of the immigrant experience, personal ambition, and the often harsh realities of artistic pursuit.
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The Bandini Quartet by John Fante is celebrated for its powerful and raw portrayal of life, capturing both pain and comedy with simplicity. Critics praise the author for his unique style, avoiding the refinement of his contemporaries and instead offering an intense, atmospheric narrative. The character Bandini is a standout creation, and the rediscovery of Fante's work is highly regarded.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781841954974
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 June 2004
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Contributors:
- Introduction by Dan Fante
- Introduction by Charles Bukowski
- Introduction by Dan Fante
- Introduction by Charles Bukowski
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 42.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 551g
Pages: 768
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About the Author
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.
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