John Fante
Subtitle: a critical gathering
By: edited by Stephen Cooper and David Fine.
Contributors: Cooper, Stephen, 1949-; Fine, David M., 1934-; John Fante Conference (1995 : California State University, Long Beach)
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Fante, John, 1909- -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.; Italian Americans in literature -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This collection of critical essays on the fiction of John Fante is the first concerted effort to assess the work, and acknowledge the significance, of one of America's most engaging and original twentieth-century literary talents.

Over the span of a half-century - from the early 1930s to the early 1980s - the Italian-American Fante (1909-1983) wrote short stories and novels that drew on his own life from his Catholic childhood in Colorado through his down-and-out days in Los Angeles, to his adventures as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He writes about all these things with gusto, humor, directness, and an honesty tinged with the irony of a true modernist."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Fante bibliography": p. 153-154.
Papers originally presented at the John Fante Conference, May 4-6, 1995, at California State University, Long Beach.