{"product_id":"the-john-fante-reader-9780060184964","title":"The John Fante Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eIts not every day that a writer  almost unheard of in his lifetime  reemerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again  there arent many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante. Born in Denver in 1909  Fante grew up in an Italian American family that was plagued by the prejudice and poverty so common among working-class immigrants of the time. But Fantes unflinching eye was meant for the City of Angels  and at age twenty-one he moved west to the town that would become his lifelong home. In semiautobiographical novels like The Road to Los Angeles  Dreams from Bunker Hill  and Ask the Dust -- his most acclaimed work -- Fante captured the rhythms of Los Angeles life in prose that spans the gap between the spare style of Hemingway and the gritty urban dialect of the Beats. The John Fante Reader is the important next step in the reintroduction of this influential literary writer to modern audiences. Combining excerpts from his novels and stories  as well as his never-before-published letters  this collection is the perfect primer on the work of a writer  underappreciated in his time  who is finalty taking his place in the pantheon of twentieth-century American writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45951495405621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0060184965","price":66.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780060184964.jpg?v=1788110035","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-john-fante-reader-9780060184964","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}