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He was born in Los Los Angeles
(Fiction. In this collection of 8 short fictions the autho...)
Fiction. In this collection of 8 short fictions the author of A-GIN-PISSING-RAW-MEAT-DUEL-CARBURETOR-V8-SON-OF-A-BITCH FROM LOS ANGELES and CHUMP CHANGE gives "a running commentary on the truth behind Los Angeles's gleaming fa‡ade--a life of brief encounters, desperation, addiction and the chasm-sized distance between people. Dan Fante takes the traditional cab driver 'knowledge' to a deeper place fueled by raw emotion, wine-guzzling existentialism and fleetingly poetic epiphanies. Here, the City of Angels' halo has definitely slipped"--Time Out Magazine. The work of Dan Fante, son of author John Fante, has also been praised by John Fowles and likened to "the genius of Bukowski and Hubert Selby, JR."--Elle.
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(In Mooch, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante...)
In Mooch, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is finally sober, and has become the best boiler-room salesman in L.A. But Dan Fante’s anti-hero can’t keep a good thing going. Leaping headfirst into an impossibly destructive love-hate relationship with the addictive ex-stripper Jimmi Valiente, Bruno finds it’s not long at all before his world begins to spiral out of control…again.With prose that seeps with brutal aggression and biting wit, Fante portrays the unavoidable self-destruction of a man whose inner demons won’t allow him to live within the limitations of society.
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(Spitting Off Tall Buildings (P.S. (Paperback)) SPITTING O...)
Spitting Off Tall Buildings (P.S. (Paperback)) SPITTING OFF TALL BUILDINGS (P.S. (PAPERBACK)) By Fante, Dan ( Author )Dec-01-2009 Paperback
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(Fiction. The book follows the exploits of Bruno Dante. In...)
Fiction. The book follows the exploits of Bruno Dante. In New York his life is a train wreck and is turned into an upheaval when he gets the call from Los Angeles that his screenwriter father is in a coma and not expected to live. The next three weeks on the streets on the streets of L.A. will change Bruno Dante's life forever. The book expresses the bewilderment of its hero and its author with rawness, crudeness, and shock, and also serves as a very beautiful and touching homage to Fante's famous father John Fante.
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(Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his...)
Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Dan Fante’s Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the story of aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, who leaves sunny Los Angeles for cold, hard New York City. Falling into a string of temporary, dead-end jobs, punctuated by meaningless affairs and intense drinking, Bruno has almost had enough when a sudden event offers him the opportunity to get his life back on track—unless screwing up, like drinking, proves a habit too difficult to shake. In prose steeped with rage and surprising humor, Fante presents a point of view of America that only the true outlaw will recognize.
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(Coming to the end of his life, Jonathan Dante, the once g...)
Coming to the end of his life, Jonathan Dante, the once great novelist turned Hollywood hack is forced to deal with his other legacies; his failing health and his profoundly dysfunctional family. Jonathan struggles to make sense of his relationship with sons as they play out the drama of their broken lives before his eyes, in a manner that ultimately causes the false choices of all to be revealed. With Don Giovanni Dan Fante has created both a brutal and loving homage to his late father John Fante as well as an invaluable American drama.
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( From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a...)
From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a gritty detective novel featuring JD Fiorella, an ex-private investigator who's bent on avenging his friend's murder. Failed private investigator JD Fiorella was a pro at finding trouble. Mixing it up with the wrong people in New York, he escaped to L.A.—only to hit rock-bottom after too many nightmares and too much booze. Now forty-six and sober, JD is working hard to get it together. Living in Malibu at his mother's house in Point Dume, he's got a new job selling used cars with his friend Woody and a new girlfriend. But just as things are looking up, JD discovers a gruesome murder. Now the ex-private detective has to make a choice. Determined to exact vengeance, he follows a twisting trail of clues that leads him to unexpected truths about himself and his new life—and to a psychopathic killer with an eerie connection to his past. And, as JD soon learns, this time there's no easy way out.
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(When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring write...)
When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fante’s Chump Change. Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Chump Change follows Bruno through the tension and stress of facing his family—and the inevitable, pain-dulling drinking that lands him naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet. Chump Change is “an honest misfit’s view of America far too few know.” (John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman).
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He was born in Los Los Angeles
Chump Change, Mooch, 86"d and Spitting Office Tall Buildings comprise a trilogy about Fante"s hard living alter-ego Bruno Dante. Chump Change found publication in France originally, before being published in the United States by Sun Dog Press. The trilogy was then published by United Kingdom publisher Canongate.
Short Dog is a collection of short stories about Fante"s life as a cab driver in Los Los Angeles Fante was the son of acclaimed novelist John Fante whose writing came back into vogue after Charles Bukowski declared him "my God", and wrote the introduction to the reprint of Fante"s seminal novel about life in Los Angeles, Ask the Dust.
As well as novels and short stories, Fante is the author of two plays - "The Closer / The Boiler Room" described by the Los Angeles Times as "ferociously profane", and "Don Giovanni", about which 3:Department of Administration and Management Magazine said: "Foreign those who want to know what is REALLY going on in post-modern American literature right now, Don Giovanni should be essential reading." Both plays are published in book form by Long Beach publisher Burning Shore Press. He is also the author of A Gin-Pissing-Raw-Meat-Dual-Carburetor-V8-Son-Of-A-Bitch From Los Angeles, a volume of poetry on Wrecking Ball Press.
He died on November 23, 2015 in Los Angeles at the age of 71.
(Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his...)
(When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring write...)
(Coming to the end of his life, Jonathan Dante, the once g...)
( From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a...)
(In Mooch, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante...)
(Spitting Off Tall Buildings (P.S. (Paperback)) SPITTING O...)
(Fiction. In this collection of 8 short fictions the autho...)
(Fiction. The book follows the exploits of Bruno Dante. In...)