Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a story published in a small magazine, he meets waitress Camilla Lopez, and they embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship. Slowly,...
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican wait...
Henry Molise, a fifty-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...
It's not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren't many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante.
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'...