false 540372 9 Fiction. John Fante recalls his first novel, recently republished by Black Sparrow Press: "Now that I am an old man I cannot look back upon WAIT UNTIL SPRING, BANDINI without losing its trail in the past. Sometimes, lying in bed at night, a phrase or a paragraph or a character from an early work will mesmerize me and in a half dream I will entwine it with phrases and draw from it a kind of melodious memory of an old bedroom in Colorado, or my mother, or my father, or my brothers and sister...of this I am sure: all 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). Other Fante works again available from Black Sparrow Press and SPD are ASK THE DUST and THE ROAD TO LOS ANGELES. 282325 5 6 1983 Wait Until Spring, Bandini total:760|5:271|4:318|3:152|2:17|1:2| 760 3119 957 41 3 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 10:10:20 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 13:15:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Thu May 31 18:28:26 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 18:30:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 06 19:43:18 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 17:31:20 -0700 2009 Wait Until Spring, Bandini finds simple ways to express feelings straight through themselves. See, for instance, the father returning home to his family after weeks of adulterous absence, guiltily, but determined not to acknowledge his guilt--"He closed the door carefully, as though his whole...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 15:31:19 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 15:31:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 13 18:47:26 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 20:22:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 09:21:22 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 17:46:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 07 16:21:13 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 16:46:07 -0800 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 03 05:09:38 -0800 2009 Mon May 04 05:13:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Oct 21 11:53:19 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 12:00:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 22:23:43 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 22:24:37 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 11:12:23 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 11:13:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 20:30:48 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 20:32:30 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Dec 24 13:51:07 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 13:51:07 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Apr 22 16:57:21 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 16:58:06 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Jun 21 14:43:34 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 07:23:30 -0700 2008 Wait Until Spring, Bandini, the first of four novels about the Bandini family (Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression), and especially about the eldest son, Arturo. I loved the engaging, crisp writing style and remember laughing out loud at the world seen from ins...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:14:53 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 14:37:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 05:09:59 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 05:13:04 -0700 2007
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I did get into the general love of Bandini and like Ask the Dust this book grabbed a huge amount of momentum as it went on. I could have taken or left it over the first hundred pages. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 26 09:30:47 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 05:03:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 22:54:11 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 23:19:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1471028