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Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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Description for Wait Until Spring, Bandini Paperback.
For Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression, the winter proves harsh. When his father seemingly abandons his family, Arturo is left to pick up the pieces, even as turmoil rages within him. With its evocative account of grinding poverty, tragic love affairs and tumultuous adolescence, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786891655
SKU
9781786891655
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99-3

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 Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his rediscovery is not before time

Times Literary Supplement

John Fante takes some beating . . . mean, moody, disturbing and intensely atmospheric

The Times

If you haven't yet discovered John Fante, you're in for a wonderful treat

Evening ... Read more

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