"Ich, Arturo Bandini" (Original: «Ask The Dust») ist ein Roman über einem kaum erwachsenen jungen Mann, der nach Los Angeles kommt um Schriftsteller zu werden und sich dabei in einer unglückliche Liebesbeziehung zu einer mexikanischen Kellnerin verstrickt. Arturo Bandini erzählt seine Geschichte, eine Geschichte voller Sex, Hass, Größenwahn, Selbstmitleid, Prahlerei, Gejammer, Rassismus, Gewalt, Drogen, Frauenfeindlichkeit, Psychosen, Armut und Elend, vor allem aber die Geschichte einer...
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and...
Henry Molise, a fifty-year-old successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his elderly parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, bricklaying father, Nick, despite being weakened by age and alcoholism, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, ill and devoutly Catholic, still has the power both to comfort and confuse her children. Nick has been offered some well-paid work to build a smokehouse in the hills, and Henry, realising this...
