John Fante, an important figure in the history of the Italian-American novel, is proving to be fascinating to contemporary readers. Richard Collins has caught Fante's spirit from several crucial angles: as an ethnic writer; as a comic novelist; as a serious writer struggling to remain so in Hollywood. Intelligent, balanced, informative, and empathetic, this book combines criticism with scholarship, and biography with history to make what Henry James would have called a perfect 'literary portrait,' for it gives life to an interesting subject.
- ISBN10 1550710710
- ISBN13 9781550710717
- Publish Date 23 November 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2021
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Guernica Editions,Canada
- Format Paperback
- Pages 300
- Language English