Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante.
New York: North Point Press, 2000. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This is the full-length biography of the Los Angeles author of Ask the Dust, The Brotherhood of the Grape, Dago Red, and Dreams of Bunker Hill. Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles. If ever a writer presented an enigma to the literary world, it was Fante?who grappled at once with brilliance and cruelty, yet presented a talent that has been equated with that of America’s finest writers. From his home near L.A.’s Bunker Hill and his days filled with frustration, rage and love, Fante’s life is at one with his characters’ lives, but Cooper pinpoints the parallels and the divergences. Item #21965
ISBN: 0865475547
Price: $65.00