Récit complètement fou et décalé d'un jeune illuminé. Souvent drôle, on se laisse emporter dans les délires de l'auteur tout en ne sachant pas très bien où l'on va.
I expected this story to be in the same dimension as "Marley and me" but it wasn't. The main character of the book is Henry Molise, married, 4 young adult children. In his life enters a depraved dog (that is easy to love and hate at the same time) which wanders around as the offspring leave the hous...
I think every writer would ultimately admit, that out of all the books they’ve read, there was one that stood above the rest. One that lit a fire in them. A book that changed their idea of what writing could be. A book that in the end helped to shape their career as an artist and perhaps touched the...
I became aware of this awhile back -- curious to me that Fante's not more well-known. I snatched a copy up for fifty cents when I went to return a library book and found that their used book sale was opening up fifteen minutes later. Even after working retail on the Main Line for three years, I stil...
I don't think I have the right adjectives to review this book. This slim novel is dense but there is not a superfluous word or turn of phrase. Ask the Dust is all at once a tragic love story; a cultural examination; a criticism of Catholicism; and the sad plight of immigrants trying to achieve the A...
Fante's writing is top-notch, but in the end, the plot and characters are too B-movie for me to really get invested. Definitely worth the read, especially if you are a fan of the Beats.
An unreliable narrator, Arturo Bandini, relates his highest accomplishments (writing short stories and a novel) and his deepest failures (finding love). His piques of racism and misogyny are followed by moments of tenderness and compassion for the same woman. He’s a man hard to admire, yet equally ...
I remember reading this one in the summer of 2005 while sitting in the hall of the old Deichmanske Library in Oslo.(I wonder if that library is still open. It's a place I like to recall).The adventures of a young Arturo Bandini and his family in cold Colorado were really entertaining and particularl...
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