Wait Until Spring, Bandini: A Powerful Italian-American Family Drama of Poverty and Hope

Fante, John

ISBN 10: 0876855540 / ISBN 13: 9780876855546

Published by Ecco, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: A Powerful Italian-American Family Drama of Poverty and Hope
• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876855540
• ISBN 13: 9780876855546
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

Book 1 of The Saga of Arturo Bandini--John Fante's First Published Novel

"Of this I am sure: all the of the people of my writing life, all of my characters are to be found in this early work. Nothing of myself is there any more, only the memory of old bedrooms, and the sound of my mother's slippers walking to the kitchen." -from the Preface to this edition by John Fante

He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.

About the Author

John Fante began writing in 1929 and published his first short story in 1932. His first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, was published in 1938 and was the first of his Arturo Bandini series of novels, which also include The Road to Los Angeles and Ask the Dust. A prolific screenwriter, he was stricken with diabetes in 1955. Complications from the disease brought about his blindness in 1978 and, within two years, the amputation of both legs. He continued to write by dictation to his wife, Joyce, and published Dreams from Bunker Hill, the final installment of the Arturo Bandini series, in 1982. He died on May 8, 1983, at the age of seventy-four.