This book offers eleven essays on Fante's career, ranging from close thematic analysis of individual stories and novels to broadly informed assessments of Fante's life and art in the context of his times. Major areas explored in the book include Fante's treatment of the Italian-American experience; his relationship to other American writers of the 1930s and beyond; the deeply Catholic nature of Fante's fiction; his unique and still-seminal vision of Los Angeles; and his lifelong concern to render in fiction both the comedy and the horrors of the writing life.
- ISBN10 1611471656
- ISBN13 9781611471656
- Publish Date 1 December 1999 (first published 1 January 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English