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A Gin Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburettor V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles (Paperback)

by Dan Fante (Author)
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  • Paperback: 90 pages
  • Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press (25 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903110076
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903110072
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 15 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 816,831 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dan Fante knows a thing or two about surviving America. If you like your prose vodka-soaked, soulful and bleeding on the page, then Fante is your man. He has lived a life that would kill most people - acute alcoholism and drug use, poverty, divorce, suicide attempts, therapy - yet has survived to pick up the pen and tell the tale. Dan Fante isn't some two-bit, woe-is-me tortured writer, this is the real deal. Here is a writer whose work is immediate, outlandish and as downright sick and self-obsessed as any musician, and all the better for it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A much-need poetic tonic, 12 Oct 2002
Dan Fante knows a thing or two about surviving America. If you like your prose vodka-soaked, soulful and bleeding on the page, then Fante is your man. He has lived a life that would kill most people -acute alcoholism and drug use, poverty, divorce, suicide attempts, therapy - yet has survived to pick up the pen and tell the tale. Fante Jr. isn't some two-bit, woe-is-me tortured writer, this is the real deal.

Here, his blunt poetry cut through the whole sorry façade of the Americans Dream, make you feel alive, make you want to smash up the room. His word tears each page a new a***hole. Here is a writer whose work is immediate, outlandish and as downright sick, challenging and self-obsessed as any musician, and all the better for it; a writer whose works stands up alongside Celine, Hubert Selby Jr and Knut Hamsun as modern confessionals from the gutter.

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