John Fante: A Literary Portrait
Richard Collins
304 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1550710710
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Language: English
Publish: December 30, 1999
Richard Collins sets out to tell the John Fante story through the analysis of his books. Once one of the “forgotten” writers of the 1930s, John Fante, an important figure in the history of the Italian-American novel, is caught from several an ethnic writer, as a comic novelist, as a serious writer struggling to remain in Hollywood.