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Original Title:	The Road to Los Ángeles
ISBN:	0876856490 (ISBN13: 9780876856499)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Saga of Arturo Bandini #2
Setting:	Los Angeles, California(United States)

The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arturo Bandini #2)

John Fante

Paperback | Pages: 167 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 5438 Users | 292 Reviews

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From the Editorial Note: This novel introduces Fante's alter ego Arturo Bandini who reappears in Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Ask the Dust (1939), and Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982). The manuscript was discovered among John Fante's papers after his death in May, 1983 by his widow Joyce, and now may be included in that short, distinguished list of important first novels by American authors.

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Title	:	The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arturo Bandini #2)
Author	:	John Fante
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 167 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2002 by Ecco (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Classics. Literature. American. The United States Of America

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Ratings: 3.83 From 5438 Users | 292 Reviews

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Boy, this was a difficult one to like. Not the smoothest intro to the world of Fante, but it still made me laugh out loud a few times. And the language is fantastic, despite how much of it made me feel a bit ill.

Pretty gruesome at times but a good book. Reminds me of The Stranger by Camus a bit. Bandini is very judgmental and hypocritical which i think is the ironic theme throughout the book. Like he hates his bosses cause they don't keep inventory or are dishonest and yet he's stealing from them. He hates his sister cause she wants to be a nun and yet he is speaking to God or trying to play God himself, he hated being referred to as a Dago and yet he goes out and is horribly racist to his coworkers.

What was the antecedent to today's asshole Rick and Morty fan? It was apparently the devoted follower of Spengler and Mencken back in the 1930s (as well as Nietzsche, of course -- the perennial philosophy of teenage boydom). Unlike the other Bandini novels, I was laughing at him here, and he deserved to be laughed at, but the damn thing never came together properly. It was just a teenage dipshit with a thesaurus, the sort that even I, Nietzsche-spouting blowhard that I was, would have mocked and

I'm glad that is over. There were bright spots - little ones. I'm glad I read 'Wait Until Spring, Bandini' first. That is a great book.This became so tedious as Arturo would drone on and on about his fantasies and how great he was, and he was a writer, beyond all others in intellect and wit.I know the book is about a kid, who has a way to go to maturity, but my God, there were passages that made my head almost explode.Internally I was yelling at Arturo, "get on with it, please your killing me".

Just got this from the local library on an inter-library loan so I'll need to put it at the head of the reading line. I'll be reading the last two installments of the late Mr. Fante's quartet as well. #3 is the best known - "Ask the Dust," and has been made into a poorly received movie(w. Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek). My paperback 1985 edition has the same design but different colors. This is the second part of the Bandini Quartet(Tetrology?) - after "Wait Until Spring, Bandini," but it was

So, this is the book that was denied, the book which Fante had troubles having it published. His first novel but was published in a posthumous way. His darkest novel, the general tone in this book is shallowed, treating themes which at that time (1933) were considered delicate, such as theft, murder, sexuality and hatred. You could tell that this was Fante's first novel, the writing even if recognizable feels extremley raw, something different from the rest of his work, there's no restraint,

The first three chapters are well-paced and have pulled me in. Although it's Fante's first novel (which wasn't published until after his death), this takes place after Wait Until Spring, BandiniUPDATE: The protagonist is ostentatiously verbose in his conversations with others, using colorfully large words like bobdingnagian. He's especially vigorous when excoriating his sister. He postures as a writer for quite a while before he actually writes anything.There is a lot of gratuitous destruction