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- 'Wait Until Spring, Bandini' (Arturo aged about 14, living in Colorado with his devoted Catholic mother and wandering father, dreaming of becoming a great baseball player. Shades of 'Catcher in the Rye').
- 'The Road to Los Angeles' (Arturo aged about 18, living with his mother and sister, dreaming of becoming a writer and working at degrading menial jobs).
- 'Ask The Dust' (Arturo aged about 20, living on his own and struggling to become a writer. This is Fante's most famous, successful book).
- 'Dreams from Bunker Hill' (Bandini living in Los Angeles and working on the movies in Hollywood. Fante actually wrote this just before he died).
The whole thing is well packaged, and it includes an excellent introduction by Fante's son, Dan, who is also a very good writer. I can't recommend this enough. I have all the individual books anyway, but now I have this I can lend my old books to friends and spread the word.
This collection is very welcome because it gathers together four of Fante's best novels at an affordable price. It's important to remember that the books weren't written in sequence, and readers looking for a conventional, continuous epic may be disappointed. The literary style of the books seems to vary slightly, as they were written at very different periods in the author's life.
That said, it's a great idea to gather together the books in this way, and I hope it will serve to give more exposure to the funny, moving and infuriating words and deeds of this classic literary character. The publisher's analogy is fitting - these books really do form a quartet, just as different musical instruments come together to create a beautiful musical story.
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