Fante
eBook - ePub

Fante

A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fante

A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving

About this book

"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times

From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86’d, 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 Dan’s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family’s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man—and the calling—that once had driven him away.

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Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter One: Italy to America
  5. Chapter Two: The Fante Family
  6. Chapter Three: John and Joyce in Hollywood
  7. Chapter Four: The Death of Ask the Dust
  8. Chapter Five: Dan Fante
  9. Chapter Six: Two Brothers
  10. Chapter Seven: Malibu and the Hollywood Ten
  11. Chapter Eight: Rocco
  12. Chapter Nine: Diabetes
  13. Chapter Ten: School and Baseball
  14. Chapter Eleven: Zanuck and Saroyan
  15. Chapter Twelve: The Tailenders
  16. Chapter Thirteen: Working as a Carny
  17. Chapter Fourteen: Life of a Salesman
  18. Chapter Fifteen: New York City
  19. Chapter Sixteen: Mo and Johnnie Beard
  20. Chapter Seventeen: John Fante Writes Again
  21. Chapter Eighteen: Taxi Taxi and Uncle Spit
  22. Chapter Nineteen: Batshit Crazy and a Bad Leg
  23. Chapter Twenty: Smoke and Sexy Vonnie
  24. Chapter Twenty-one: The Cure
  25. Chapter Twenty-two: A Real Private “Dick”
  26. Chapter Twenty-three: Real Detective Work
  27. Chapter Twenty-four: Hollywood “Luck”
  28. Chapter Twenty-five: Skinning a New Cat
  29. Chapter Twenty-six: Help from Uncle Spit
  30. Chapter Twenty-seven: A Good Novel Can Change the World
  31. Chapter Twenty-eight: Dodging the Bullet
  32. Chapter Twenty-nine: The Limoscene
  33. Chapter Thirty: A Novelist Again
  34. Chapter Thirty-one: Dav-Ko Hollywood
  35. Chapter Thirty-two: Another Shot at Detox
  36. Chapter Thirty-three: Not Even Fifteen Minutes of Fame
  37. Chapter Thirty-four: Bukowski, Ben Pleasants, and the Rediscovery of John Fante
  38. Chapter Thirty-five: Now a Phone Guy
  39. Chapter Thirty-six: The Death of John Fante
  40. Chapter Thirty-seven: Into the Boiler Room
  41. Chapter Thirty-eight: From Success to Filthy Socks
  42. Chapter Thirty-nine: An Unwanted Lodger
  43. Chapter Forty: A Published Author
  44. Chapter Forty-one: Dealing with a Family’s Alcoholism
  45. Chapter Forty-two: The Death of Joyce Fante and John Fante’s Legacy
  46. Epilogue
  47. Acknowledgments
  48. P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .
  49. Author’s Note
  50. Also by Dan Fante
  51. Credits
  52. Copyright
  53. About the Publisher