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A Gin-pissing-raw-meat-dual-carburator-v8-son-of-a-bitch from Los Angeles: v. 8 (Hardcover)

by Dan Fante (Author), Michael Napper (Illustrator)

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Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Sun Dog Press,U.S. (2 May 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0941543315
ISBN-13: 978-0941543316
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 934,410 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dan Fante is a writer for the new century. His Chump Change and Mooch have received rave reviews worldwide. Using his disordered life as the source for his semi-autobiographical books, Fante chronicles over 29 years of self-abuse through marijuana, cocaine and, most destructively, alcohol, and his impossible road to survival and recovery. Here now is an intimate poetic record of Fante's examination of his own depths - a wide and wild, alternately comic and tragic experience of his personal and literary struggles.

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5.0 out of 5 stars the most honest man in america, 4 Jan 2004

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in a world full of lying evil writers, why is it this man is not classed as a living genius?,I know why, america can't handle the truth, hell thats why the french had to publish him first!!.Anyway back to the book, if you've read any previous works you know what a true treat you are in for plus the added bonus of this being poetry!time to put down hank and pick up dan!.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal and beautiful truth, 7 Feb 2008

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I'd read the other Dan Fante's (the three novels and of course Short Dog, the collection of short stories) and loved them. I'm a big fan of Bukowski (predictably) and have looked into John Fante a bit less than I ought (Dan's father, only appreciated as a classic underdog writer more recently, mainly through the more vogueish Bukowski's appraisal of him as his God).
However, none of this prepared me for just how good this collection of Dan's writing would be (I generally prefer prose). I was captivated by the strength of his inner voice and how he fearlessly exposes it in these pithy poems touching on sadness, lust, frustration and hope. Similarly to both of his predecessors mentioned above, he writes of writing but is capable of raising his battles against lack of inspiration, distraction by pursuit of intoxication and women, and the soul crushing banality of modern life in a consumerist society into an epic and heroic contest. I'm cheering him on the whole way through this amazing book, and can assure him that, for this reader at least, the price he has paid in broken relationships, physical and mental torment and near madness has been worth it.
I was in turned moved, amused and absorbed by the brutal truths and beautiful command of simple honest language Dan uses to convey his ongoing struggle to discover why, like the rest of us, he is here and why sometimes it hurts so goddamed much.
If you like underground writing, writing on writing, booze or writing as a form of self-therapy, then I can't recommend this enough. Honestly, support this writer, let's not shun him for 50 years until someone in the public eye has the guts to recommend him - he's telling us how it is in the here and now.

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