Wait Until Spring, Bandini

The Saga of Arturo Bandini #1

by John Fante

"Mean, moody, disturbing and intensely atmospheric.” —The Times

John Fante's first published novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini chronicles a trying winter in the lives of the Bandinis, a poor and dysfunctional but oddly endearing Italian-American family living in Colorado during the Great Depression.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Novels, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Americana

266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1938

About the author

Fante's early years were spent in relative poverty. The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, and briefly attended the University of Colorado.

In 1929, he dropped out of college and moved to Southern California to concentrate on his writing. He lived and worked in Wilmington, Long Beach, and in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California.

He is known to be one of the first writers to portray the tough times faced by many writers in L.A. His work and style has influenced such similar authors as "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" Charles Bukowski and influential beat generation writer Jack Kerouac. He was proclaimed by Time Out magazine as one of America's "criminally neglected writers."

Reviews

[Xavier Pueyo Díaz]

Relata les experiències de pubertat d'un alter ego de l'autor, Arturo Bandini. És una novel·la autobiogràfica, suposo que amb llicències a la ficció. Fa servir el quasi-omniscient en tot el relat, per poder afegir visions diferents de la del personatge principal. És un relat viu, àgil, sovint apassionat. Narra la pobresa, la ràbia, l'enamorament, l'astucia. Malgrat ser una obra primerenca, està mot ben trabada. Recomanable.

[Clàudia Moyés]

El primer d'una tetralogia, quan pugui em compro el segon!!