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Title: Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante ISBN: 0-87685-554-0 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: April, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Great Bandini
Comment: Everyone should be required to read this book. Fantes voice was merely echoed by Kerouac years later.
Rating: 5
Summary: great
Comment: Wait Until Spring, Bandini is a masterfully crafted novel by an amazingly underapreciated author. John Fante's name is like a password, those who know it cannot deny their bookishness. His writing is powerful and touching in its simplicity as he tells the tale of Aurturo Bandini, the son of Italian immigrants living in Colorodo. There are no wars, explosions, or black holes in this book. Its a tiny little story about one winter in a boy's life. Its power is in the realization that it provokes, the realization that growing up is something we all had to go through, that we've all made mistakes, and we're all human.
Rating: 4
Summary: A beautifully written Italian-American family story
Comment: "Wait Until Spring, Bandini," by John Fante, is a novel about an Italian-American family living in Colorado. The story focuses on Arturo Bandini, a teenager who is the eldest of the family's three sons. His father, Svevo, is a bricklayer and an immigrant to the United States. Very Americanized, Arturo loves baseball and is tormented inside over his family's poverty.
Fante richly develops the relationships among the members of this often dysfunctional family. He also vividly evokes the experience of raising a family in poverty. Particularly interesting is Fante's portrayal of Roman Catholicism within the life of the Bandini family; religion is shown to be a very ambiguous force. There are some dark, even cruel episodes as the family's story unfolds.
As much as I enjoyed "Wait," I did not find it in the end to be as satisfying as the other Fante novels which I have read ("1933 Was a Bad Year" and "Full of Life"). Still, it's a powerful family story that is graced by Fante's excellent prose style.
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Title: Ask the Dust by John Fante, Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876854439 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: June, 1980 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante ISBN: 0876856490 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: December, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante ISBN: 0876855281 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: March, 1982 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Brotherhood of the Grape by John Fante ISBN: 0876857268 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: 1933 Was a Bad Year by John Fante ISBN: 0876856555 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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