num_pages: 384
description: Fante's captivating letters trace his emergence from poverty to life as a Hollywood screenwriter. Complemented by many photos and interesting appendices, the book is most distinguished by Fante's letters to his mother-letters in which he is just as apt to lie about church attendance as he is to describe, with peculiar candor, skinny-dipping with a girl friend.
language: English
title: Selected Letters, 1932-1981
titlecomplete: Selected Letters, 1932-1981
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 151
publisher: Ecco