"Henry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, brick laying father, Nick, though weak and alcoholic, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, though ill and devout to her Catholicism, still has the power to comfort and confuse her children. This is typical of Fante's novels, it's autobiographical, and brimming with love, death, violence and religion. Writing with great passion Fante powerfully hits home the damage family can wreck upon us all."
"Drunk at the matinee" is a collection of candid poetry about stupid shit that we all experience from day to day.
bukowski mentioned him time to time, havent read this one though.
ReplyDelete"Fante was my God."
ReplyDeletewas the review blurb by buk
on the front of my copy.
I only recently read 'Ask the Dust'. The movie's good, too. Salma Hayek is beautiful as Camilla.
ReplyDeleteIm all over it man, going to cop the book then check the film asap.
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