Author by: John Fante Languange: en Publisher by: Canongate Books Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 71 Total Download: 491 File Size: 49,6 Mb Description: Arturo Bandini is a twenty-year-old burgeoning writer, spending his days hungry for success, life and food in a dingy hotel in Los Angeles. Full of the enthusiasm of youth, and the thrill of having one short story published, the reality of poverty and prejudice has hit him hard.
But by 1941, Ask the Dust had already flopped. And after 1941, he published as many short stories as he had in just the first couple of years. Still better than some of the slop he banged out for Hollywood (but also eerily similar).
He meets a local waitress, Camilla Lopez, and embarks on a strange and strained love-hate relationship. Slowly, but inexorably, it descends into the realms of madness.
Fante depicts the highs and lows of the emotional state of Bandini with conviction, but without easy sentiment. In Ask the Dust, Fante is truly 'telling it like it is' as a poverty-stricken son of an immigrant in 'perfect' California. Vray for sketchup crack. Author by: Richard Collins Languange: en Publisher by: Guernica Editions Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 68 Total Download: 101 File Size: 51,7 Mb Description: John Fante, an important figure in the history of the Italian-American novel, is proving to be fascinating to contemporary readers.
Richard Collins has caught Fante's spirit from several crucial angles: as an ethnic writer; as a comic novelist; as a serious writer struggling to remain so in Hollywood. Intelligent, balanced, informative, and empathetic, this book combines criticism with scholarship, and biography with history to make what Henry James would have called a perfect 'literary portrait, ' for it gives life to an interesting subject. Author by: Roger Ebert Languange: en Publisher by: Andrews McMeel Publishing Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 48 Total Download: 302 File Size: 43,8 Mb Description: Nobody has been more important in telling Americans why we should love film than Roger Ebert.
--Michael Shamberg, Editor and Publisher Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 650 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, essays, tributes, film festival reports, and Q and As from Questions for the Movie Answer Man. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 collects more than two years' worth of his engaging film critiques.
From Bee Movie to Darfur Now to No Country for Old Men, and from Juno to Persepolis to La Vie en Rose, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 includes every review Ebert has written from January 2006 to June 2008. Also included in the Yearbook, which boasts 65 percent new content, are: * Interviews with newsmakers, such as Juno director Jason Reitman and Jerry Seinfeld, a touching tribute to Deborah Kerr, and an emotional letter of appreciation to Werner Herzog. * Essays on film issues, and tributes to actors and directors who died during the year. * Daily film festival reports from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and Telluride.
* All-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns. Author by: Long Beach) John Fante Conference (1995 California State University Languange: en Publisher by: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 80 Total Download: 335 File Size: 42,9 Mb 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. Author by: Languange: en Publisher by: Carpet Bombing Culture Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 79 Total Download: 397 File Size: 46,9 Mb Description: Ask the Dust is a feast of urban ruin photography, executed in gorgeous full colour, full page spreads framed by the overview of the young French adventurer behind the camera. Featuring a potent blend of haunting images of never before seen locations and new angles on classic subjects - Ask the Dust is a visual treat for anyone who cannot keep their eyes away from the elegant corruption of decomposing buildings.