by John Fante · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806168865
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«La strada per Los Angeles» is the novel by John Fante, published by Einaudi in paperback (249 pages, in Italian).
Arturo Gabriel Bandini is an Italian immigrant with delusions of grandeur: quarrelsome, megalomaniacal, contemptuous, and in perpetual conflict with everyone. The novel follows him from his job as a ditch digger while he dreams of becoming a great writer in Los Angeles, showing his ambition, his arrogance, and the tension with his family.
Second volume of the Arturo Bandini series, consisting of four novels, with an introduction by Sandro Veronesi. Einaudi Stile libero collection.
For readers of classic fiction who want to discover Arturo Bandini, the legendary character by John Fante.
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles. It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel, and is one in a series of four, published between 1938 and 1985, that are now collectively called "The Bandini Quartet." Ask the Dust was adapted into a 2006 film starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek. Fante's published works while he lived included five novels, one novella, and a short story collection. Additional works, including two novels, two novellas, and two short story collections, were published posthumously. His screenwriting credits include, most notably, Full of Life, Jeanne Eagels (1957), and the 1962 films Walk on the Wild Side and The Reluctant Saint.
