The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill
* Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his rediscovery is not before time. Times Literary Supplement * John Fante knew how to make words sing. When he was on form, he could write sentences that stopped time. Uncut * John Fante takes some beating ... mean, moody, disturbing and intensely atmospheric. The Times * Fante's searing, effortless style eschewed the refinement of Fitzgerald, the hubris of Hemingway and the panoramic vistas of Dos Passos. Instead he marshalled the raw materials of his own life - poverty, sex, paternal hatred, Catholic guilt, misplaced pride, hard drinking, labour, fighting, overarching literary ambition and the internecine hatred within immigrant communities in pre-war America - rendering the pain and comedy with such heartbreaking simplicity as to brook no hint of the literary zeitgeist. Dazed and Confused