by John Fante
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by John Fante
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by John Fante
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by John Fante
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by John Fante
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In this biography, the author sets out to untangle the enigma of an authentic American original. It traces the life of Fante, his writing career and his involvement with Hollywood and the likes of Orson Welles. It should help secure Fante's place in the international literary pantheon.
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'Stephen Cooper's tender, angry biography may in a sense be Fante's finest novel.' The Herald
Full of Life is the first ever biography of John Fante, one of the great outsider figures of twentieth-century literature. By turns savage and poetic, Fante was the author of such classic underground novels as The Road to Los Angeles, Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Ask the Dust which is widely acknowledged to be his masterpiece.
Born in 1909 to poor Italian-American parents in Colorado, Fante survived the rigours of a traditional Catholic education before venturing west in 1930 to become a writer. Eventually setting down in Los Angeles's faded downturn area of Bunker Hill, his early work was championed by the legendary editor of the American Mercury, H.L. Mencken. However, he received little critical or commercial success for his progressive fiction and spent much of the '40s and '50s writing for Hollywood, a literary crime for which he never forgave himself. By the time of his death in 1980 he was nearly forgotten.
Both stylish and rigorous, Cooper's vivid biography explores and untangles the enigma of this contrary and brilliant figure and will help secure Fante's place in the international literary pantheon.
'Full of Life feels like a labour of love, resurrecting this unfairly marginalised figure in rich prose that reads more like a novel than a biography. Then again, his extraordinary life hardly lends itself to a dry catalogue of facts.' The Times
'Fante remains one of the greatest writers of all time and this biography is an excellent accessory to a wonderful body of work.' Uncut
'One of the lost souls of American letters, an author whose work has an almost legendary stature among writers and critics, but remains curiously unknown to the public at large.' Los Angeles Times
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