Dan Fante

Tras una borrachera salvaje que acaba en orgía homosexual y tentativa de suicidio, Bruno Dante es internado por tercera vez en la unidad de alcohólicos y enfermos mentales del Hospital San Giuseppe di Cupertino en el Bronx. Mientras se recupera le llegan malas noticias de la Costa Oeste: su padre, el escritor y guionista Jonathan Dante, con el que nunca se ha llevado bien, está gravemente enfermo y los médicos le dan pocos días de vida. Llamado a rendir un último homenaje al padre, Bruno Dante abandona antes de lo previsto el hospital y emprende un viaje de costa a costa en compañía de su odiada mujer. Un padre genial, rudo y con un carácter horrible: Jonathan Dante. Un hijo lleno de talento que se pierde en el alcohol, el sexo y la depravación: Bruno Dante.

Sans ressources, accro aux médocs et à lalcool, Bruno Dante exulte quand il obtient un travail de chauffeur de maîtres. Cest le début dune folle existence avec son lot damitiés et de révoltes. Sur Su

Sans ressources, accro aux médocs et à lalcool, Bruno Dante exulte quand il obtient un travail de chauffeur de maîtres. Cest le début dune folle existence avec son lot damitiés et de révoltes. Sur Su

Ayant connu quelques déboires comme détective privé à New York, JD Fiorella est rentré se faire une santé au pays, plus précisément Point Dume, à Malibu, Californie. Tout a lair de sarranger pour lui

Ayant connu quelques déboires comme détective privé à New York, JD Fiorella est rentré se faire une santé au pays, plus précisément Point Dume, à Malibu, Californie. Tout a lair de sarranger pour lui

From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a gritty detective novel featuring JD Fiorella, an ex-private investigator whos bent on avenging his friends murder.Failed private investigator JD Fiorella was a pro at finding trouble. Mixing it up with the wrong people in New York, he escaped to L.A.only to hit rock-bottom after too many nightmares and too much booze.Now forty-six and sober, JD is working hard to get it together. Living in Malibu at his mothers house in Point Dume, hes got a new job selling used cars with his friend Woody and a new girlfriend. But just as things are looking up, JD discovers a gruesome murder. Now the ex-private detective has to make a choice.Determined to exact vengeance, he follows a twisting trail of clues that leads him to unexpected truths about himself and his new lifeand to a psychopathic killer with an eerie connection to his past. And, as JD soon learns, this time theres no easy way out.

"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." New York TimesFrom Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes a gripping memoir and an exploration of his familys literary legacyone of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father, a legendary Hollywood screenwriter, achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dans struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his familys dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices in a powerful story of addiction and recovery, and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the manand the callingthat once had driven him away.This unflinching memoir, in the tradition of Charles Bukowski, peels back the layers of a complicated literary family.A Fathers Shadow: Go inside the difficult, alcohol-fueled relationship between Dan and his celebrated father, Ask the Dust author John Fante. Literary Outlaw Inheritance: Discover the Fante family legacy of passion, emotional violence, and the desperate struggle for a son to find his own voice. The Writing Life: A raw, behind-the-scenes look at two authors, the glamour and grit of old Hollywood, and the world that inspired literary legends. Survival and Sobriety: Follow Dans escape from his own vices in a powerful journey from the depths of alcoholism to his embrace of the calling that once drove him away.

When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fantes Chump Change. Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86d, Chump Change follows Bruno through the tension and stress of facing his familyand the inevitable, pain-dulling drinking that lands him naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet. Chump Change is an honest misfits view of America far too few know. (John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenants Woman).

In Mooch, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is finally sober, and has become the best boiler-room salesman in L.A. But Dan Fantes anti-hero cant keep a good thing going. Leaping headfirst into an impossibly destructive love-hate relationship with the addictive ex-stripper Jimmi Valiente, Bruno finds its not long at all before his world begins to spiral out of controlagain.With prose that seeps with brutal aggression and biting wit, Fante portrays the unavoidable self-destruction of a man whose inner demons wont allow him to live within the limitations of society.

Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86d, Dan Fantes Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the story of aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, who leaves sunny Los Angeles for cold, hard New York City. Falling into a string of temporary, dead-end jobs, punctuated by meaningless affairs and intense drinking, Bruno has almost had enough when a sudden event offers him the opportunity to get his life back on trackunless screwing up, like drinking, proves a habit too difficult to shake. In prose steeped with rage and surprising humor, Fante presents a point of view of America that only the true outlaw will recognize.

In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.

Las vidas de John Fante y de su hijo, Dan Fante, son muy distintas pero muy parecidas en lo esencial: su pasión por la escritura y su debilidad por el alcohol. En Fante. Un legado de escritura, alcohol y supervivencia, Dan Fante traza la historia familiar desde el sur de Italia hasta los barrios de inmigrantes de Colorado y Los Angeles, donde un joven John Fante empecinado en escribir novelas lucha para conseguir reconocimiento literario, hasta que harto de no obtenerlo sucumbe a los suculentos cheques que el Hollywood de la epoca dorada le entrega a cambio de sus guiones. Un padre, John, amargado por el fracaso de su vocacion y con un caracter explosivo; y un hijo, Dan, descubridor precoz de la mala vida que a los veinte años escapa de las tensas relaciones familiares huyendo sin un centimo a Nueva York, son el eje narrativo de unas memorias en las que Dan Fante imprime el ritmo de sus novelas. En Nueva York seguiremos a Dan en su carrera de trabajos extravagantes y hazañas alcoholicas, de la que solo sera rescatado, veinticinco años mas tarde, por la escritura.