The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories

John Fante

ISBN 10: 0876855834 / ISBN 13: 9780876855836

Published by Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1985

About this Item

hard cover in clear dust jacket. cloth-backed paper-covered boards., very slight rubbing to small areas of dj. no other flaws or wear. clean, no markings of any sort. no bumps, tears. tight binding. a very well preserved copy.; first hard cover trade edition.; 266pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bookseller Inventory # 17990

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Hard Cover

Book Condition:Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Plus

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Stories tell of secret family photographs, an idle bricklayer, a first communion, a boy's mischief, a confirmed bachelor, Catholic school, a cousin's funeral, and the arrival of a new parish priest

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.