Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy.
This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised.
- ISBN10 1782116001
- ISBN13 9781782116004
- Publish Date 14 August 2014 (first published 21 June 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition Main
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 768
- Language English