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by John Fante (Author), Dan Fante (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; New edition edition (19 Jul 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841958328
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841958323
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"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"

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Two Bandinis for the price of one, 12 Mar 2002
This review is from: Wait Until Spring, Bandini ("Rebel Inc." Classics) (Paperback)
An interesting foreward to this edition by the author's son, explaining how his father ended up a golf-playing screenwriter in LA, rather than a Nobel prize-winning author in a million.

If you haven't had the pleasure of Fante or Bandini yet, then indulge yourself. This is a wonderful story of the confused and passionate lives of the two males Bandinis. It contains classy touches of humour, and is about human life in all its glory and squalor.

The only problem with Fante's books is that once you've read one, there's one less to read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Don't wait until Spring, buy this now!, 9 Oct 2000
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This review is from: Wait Until Spring, Bandini ("Rebel Inc." Classics) (Paperback)
John Fante started out in the thirties as a short story writer and a novelist. This is his earliest published novel. The chief character, Bandini, is obviously autobiographical. It is based on the time immediately before he moved to California in 1930, it was first published in 1938. This edition has a useful introduction by his son Dan.

Why should you read him? Well, it's the classic American tale of a writer's adolescence. All Fante's later work mined the same vein, gradually getting older.

Why haven't you heard of him? Well, in Hollywood he did this and that and neglected his career. Before Charles Bukowski mentioned that he was his favourite novelist he was almost forgotten.

Read him because he tells great stories in clean pure prose. This is the first sentence I read when I open the book at random."He fell to wondering about her, his eyes bulging with curiosity for her protected world, so sleek and bright, like the rich silk that defined the round luxury of her handsome legs. " HONEST, THE FIRST RANDOM SENTENCE. Four, or five, worse American writers have got the Nobel prize.(*)

You don't read stuff like this, it sucks you in and lets you off at the other end.

(*) Three are Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck and Pearl S. Buck(!). I don't dare mention the fourth. Over the majority of his career, weighed book by book he is better than Hemingway. Not sure how that counts in the balance.

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4.0 out of 5 stars looking for help, 26 Nov 1998
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Hi! I have read this book and thought it was very good. I have to write a report on it for my English class, but was shocked to find out that almost nothing is to be found about this book and its author. I have rummaged the whole library but there was nothing, and I can't find much useful information on the Internet, either. Is there anybody who has read this book and has also written a report or who knows where I can find information. Thanks. Leiah
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