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Spitting Off Tall Buildings (Paperback)

by Dan Fante (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (1 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841951900
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841951904
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 458,925 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Bruno Dante - aspirant playwright and long-time drunk - has hitch-hiked cross country, escaping the sunshine of LA, for the more cynical climate of New York. He should fit right in. But if there's money for beer he's sure to fuck things up.


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"Fante writes hard, emotive prose in which every word matters." The Face

"Fante writes like a screwed-up Chandler, living the life that most only ever write about." Morning Star

Spitting off Tall Buildings is the last episode in the Bruno Dante trilogy. This time Dante finds himself in New York, needing work. The type of work available to a man like Dante is rarely challenging or interesting. Work is more often just a battle to survive - a struggle with his inner demons before they screw things up for him. He tries his hand at countless jobs; movie theatre usher, hotel night manager, belt sales man, taxi driver and window cleaner of tall buildings amongst others. But nothing lasts, Dante is not a man who jells with bosses well.

This is the desperate plight of a man and his addiction. A man who uses alcohol to suppress the noises in his head, and who drinks to escape the wretchedness of his predicament, but whose drinking is jeopardising his one raison d'etre - his writing.

Dan Fante is the son of the late John Fante acclaimed writer of 1933 Was a Bad Year. Dan Fante drank for 20 years, married three times and worked in more dead-end jobs than he can remember. Now sober, he has written three novels, a play and a collection of poetry.


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4.0 out of 5 stars A Natural Writer, 8 Mar 2002
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Dan Fante was born to write. There are no wasted words, or false sentiments, in this abrasive, occasionally brutal 'memoir' (Fante harldy bothers to disguise the book's autobiographical basis). In Fante's universe, people are basically ignoble and self-interested, although our narrator has occasional lapses of extravagant generosity to those even less fortunate than himself. If you've ever done a dead-end job in a big city, this is a book should read. Once you've finished, you'll feel you've lived as well as read it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fante Strikes Again!, 28 Aug 2002
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Fante's third slice of Bruno Dante's life is typically raw and in your face. Just as brutal, funny, straight and true as his other two. Refreshing. Let's have some more from this guy!
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