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16%OFFJohn Fante - 1933 Was a Bad Year - 9781841951928 - V9781841951928
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1933 Was a Bad Year

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Description for 1933 Was a Bad Year Paperback. Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to big leagues, big recognition and big love. He struggles, though, against reality of his Italian parents, and comes under pressure to go into the family business. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 88. 112 pages. Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to big leagues, big recognition and big love. He struggles, though, against reality of his Italian parents, and comes under pressure to go into the family business. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 8. Weight: 100.

John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to start writing. In a life that spanned 74 years, Fante wrote several great novels, such as Ask the Dust, and numerous screenplays. He died in 1983 from diabetes-related complications.

Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to the big leagues, big recognition and big love. He struggles, though, against the reality of his Italian parents, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841951928
SKU
V9781841951928
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About John Fante
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 ... Read more

Reviews for 1933 Was a Bad Year
Quirky, stylish and often funny.

The List

Fante's writing has a freshness that should shame many of today's scribblers.

Sunday Herald

Disappointment, disaffection, alienation, anomie and angst are the stock-in-trade of the cult writer, and John Fante is a fine example.

The Times
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Goodreads reviews for 1933 Was a Bad Year


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