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1	Wait Until Spring, Bandini more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $4.99! new only from $6.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Ask the dust more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist Arturo Bandini, Fante's autobiographical hero, is an aspiring writer in love with the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Finally, Bandini sees his first novel published, but when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears, he rejects the life of a writer. see all copies from $6.44! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	1933 Was a Bad Year more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist Trapped in a small town in 1933, 17-year-old Dominic yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming a sports hero. He struggles though, against the wishes of his Italian parents who want him to go into the family business. A story of class and an individual's struggle during hard times in America. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $10.14! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Full of Life more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist Fante's 1952 novel, about a bemused young husband whose wife is expecting a baby and who rediscovers his Catholic faith, is sunnier than most of his works, and was made into a popular movie starring Judy Holliday and Richard Conte. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Brotherhood of the Grape more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! new only from $8.80! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Dreams from Bunker Hill more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $8.65! new only from $9.16! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Wine of Youth more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $2.96! new only from $9.76! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Road to Los Angeles more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist Originally written in 1933, this book was John Fante's first novel. The central character is Arturo Bandini who sees himself as a Nietzschean ubermensch surrounded by fools. His firm belief is that he is a literary genius. see all copies from $5.92! new only from $8.03! \| first editions
9	West of Rome: Two Novellas more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $5.50! new only from $14.00!
10	The John Fante Reader more books like this by John Fante, Stephen Cooper (Editor) add to wishlist Stephen Cooper, John Fante's biographer, has chosen a selection of his work to represent the best of Fante's writing, including excerpts from all his major novels and stories as well as portions of letters, most of which are unpublished. see all copies from $2.91! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Big Hunger more books like this by John Fante, Stephen Cooper (Editor) add to wishlist Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante. see all copies from $6.74! new only from $6.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	John Fante Selected Letters 1932-1981 more books like this by John Fante, Seamus Cooney (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.90! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Bandini Quartet by John Fante add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $16.41! new only from $16.41!
14 view cover	The Big Hunger: Stories, 1932-1959 by John Fante, Stephen Cooper (Editor) add to wishlist Since his death in 1983, John Fante's literary stock has soared. In 1987 Vogue proclaimed Fante "one of the premier American writers of the century"; in 1989, when no less than six movies based on his novels were in production, American Film called him "the hottest writer in Hollywood". The groundswell of belated recognition for the once obscure ... see all copies from $32.50! new only from $35.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Selected Letters, 1932-1981 more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $8.99! first editions
16	West of Rome by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $17.50! \| first editions
17 view cover	1933 Was Bad Yr more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $7.63!
18	John Fante & H.L. Mencken : a personal correspondence, 1930-1952 more books like this by John Fante, H. L. Mencken, Michael Moreau add to wishlist see all copies from $55.00! first editions
19	Prologue to Ask the Dust more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $50.00! signed copies \| first editions
20	Bandini by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $18.73! new only from $18.73!
21 view cover	La Hermandad de La Uva by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $22.29! new only from $22.29!
22	Romans, Tome 2: Le Vin De La Jeunesse-L'Orgie-Pleins De Vie by John; Matthieussent Fante, Brice add to wishlist see all copies from $21.50! new only from $77.50!
23	Espera a la Primavera, Bandini by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $21.85! new only from $21.86!
24	The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories more books like this by John Fante add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! first editions \| SVS
25	Bravo, Burro! more books like this by John Fante, Rudolf Borchert, Marilyn Hirsh add to wishlist Despite his father's objections, Manuel refuses to be parted from the burro he rescued from a fight with a cougar. see all copies from $200.00! first editions

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