Bøger af Dan Fante

¿Soaked in booze and sadness, psychotic eruptions and hilarity.¿¿Willy VlautinIn the freewheeling, debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski, a taxi driver¿s stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeles¿with an introduction by Willy Vlautin. ¿Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw.¿¿New York Times. Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool, of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog (the title is street slang for a half-pint of alcohol): I had been back working a cabbie gig as a result of my need for money. And insanity. Hack driver is the only occupation I know about with no boss, and because I have always performed poorly at supervised employment, I returned to the taxi business. The up side, now that I was working again, was that my own boozing was under control and I was on beer only, except for my days off.Fante was the son of famed novelist and screenwriter John Fante, but as the Los Angeles Times wrote, the younger Fante ¿¿ allows us a glimpse of the Southern California demimonde that surely escaped his father¿s attention.¿These outsider stories are raw, vivid, and brutally honest. But even when the stories are fueled by anger and disgust, they are punctuated by unexpectedly funny and dark-humored vignettes. Short Dog is for readers ready for a cab ride on the wild side.

From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a gritty detective novel featuring JD Fiorella, an ex-private investigator who's bent on avenging his friend's murder.Failed private investigator JD Fiorella was a pro at finding trouble. Mixing it up with the wrong people in New York, he escaped to L.A.?only to hit rock-bottom after too many nightmares and too much booze.Now forty-six and sober, JD is working hard to get it together. Living in Malibu at his mother's house in Point Dume, he's got a new job selling used cars with his friend Woody and a new girlfriend. But just as things are looking up, JD discovers a gruesome murder. Now the ex-private detective has to make a choice.Determined to exact vengeance, he follows a twisting trail of clues that leads him to unexpected truths about himself and his new life?and to a psychopathic killer with an eerie connection to his past. And, as JD soon learns, this time there's no easy way out.

As father and son, John and Dan Fante's relationship was characterized by competition, resentment, rages, and extended periods of silence. This title traces Dan Fante's family's history from the hillsides of Italy to the immigrant neighborhoods of Colorado to Los Angeles.

Erindringsværk af Dan Fante, søn af den legendariske forfatter John Fante.Det er ikke en John Fante biografi, men en personlig beskrivelse af hvordan det har været at vokse op som søn af John Fante og have hans passion for både ordet og flasken med sig i bagagen.Dan Fante har levet på bunden af samfundet, han pakker ikke noget ind og er ikke bange for at beskrive sin egen fremfærd som dumt svin.Det er en usentimental, barsk, ligefrem og ærlig fortælling - et hudløst billede af det underpriviligerede USA i tresserne og halvfjerdserne.Dan Fante (1944-2015) var en amerikansk forfatter og dramatiker. Til trods for at Dan Fante er amerikaner, debuterede han i første omgang i Frankrig med romanen "Chump change", der også udgør første del i en trilogi om Dan Fantes alterego Bruno Fante og hans hårdkogte liv i Los Angeles. I det hele taget fylder Los Angeles og den smeltedigel af håb og drømme, mismod og misbrug en del i Dan Fantes forfatterskab.