Wait Until Spring, Bandini [Paperback]

"Fante was my God." Charles Bukowski "If you haven't yet discovered John Fante, you're in for a wonderful treat." Evening Standard "Fante's writing has a freshness that should shame many of today's scribblers." Sunday Herald "An excellent rites of passage tale, infused with all the gory humiliation, rich humour and treacherous hormones of adolescence." Buzz"

A powerful, lyrical and touching tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town, "Wait Until Spring, Bandini" tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression. With its powerful and evocative account of tragic love affairs, grinding poverty and adolescence in turmoil, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.

Wait Until Spring, Bandini is the turbulent story of a young Arturo Bandini trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family life, poverty and religion in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression.

With its powerful and evocative account of tragic love affairs, grinding poverty and adolescence in turmoil, John Fante's first published novel is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

John Fante's first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, was published in 1938. Before he died, aged 74, he published numerous works of fiction and film screenplays, most notably the classic, Ask the Dust. He was posthumously recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN, Los Angeles.