· Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Chump Change When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fante’s Chump Change. · His subsequent “Bruno Dante” novels – Chump Change, Mooch, Spitting Off Tall Buildings and 86’d – are powerful, visceral accounts of his Author: Benjamin Myers. · Dan Fante is the author of Chump Change ( avg rating, ratings, 99 reviews, published ), Mooch ( avg rating, ratings, 39 reviews, pub /5.
Maybe the Fante name brought attention to Dan's work initially. But once you open the pages of Chump Change, or 86'd, or Mooch, Point Dume, or my personal favorite, Spitting Off Tall Buildings, Fante's spirit jumps out to pummel you and soon you are just as bruised, battered, twisted and tormented as his drug and alcohol addicted. Chump Change: A Novel|Dan Fante, The Footsteps Of Anne Frank. Translated From The German By Richard And Clara Winston|SCHNABEL (E)., The Encyclopedia Of Pure Materia Medica Volume 10 A Record Of The Positive Effects Of Drugs Upon The Healthy Human Organism|Timothy Field Allen, Labour Party And The Organization Of Secondary Education, (Library Of Political Studies)|Michael Parkinson. When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fante's Chump www.doorway.ru back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86'd, Chump Change follows Bruno through the tension and stress of facing his family—and the inevitable, pain-dulling.
His “Chump Change,” “Mooch,” “86’d” and “Spitting Off Tall Buildings” comprise a trilogy about cab driver Bruno Dante, his hard living alter-ego. Like many of the younger Fante. Looking at the author photograph of Dan Fante -- which depicts a sixtysomething, moon-faced, grimacing bald man in a leather bomber jacket aiming a pistol indiscriminately upward while just behind him four seagulls spread their wings in a cloudless sky -- I was first struck by his intangible Martin Balsam quality, and then as is often the case with books such as Chump Change, I was revisited by the question of authenticity. (i.e., Is this guy for real??. It must be hard for a writer to carry the name of such an giant father, what Dan Fante does incredibly well with CHUMP CHANGE is marry his own narrative to those created by his father John. He does it in a way that creates a legacy, a link between Arturo Bandini and Bruno Dante but in a way that's individualistic, gritty, and powerful.
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