The Bandini Quartet

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John Fante. The Bandini Quartet

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Born in Denver on 8 April 1909, John Fante migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. He began writing in 1930 and had numerous short stories published in American magazines, the likes of American Mercury, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Saturday Evening Post and the Atlantic Monthly. Fante also wrote several collections of short stories and numerous screenplays, including Full of Life and Walk on the Wild Side.

His first published novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, appeared in 1938 and was followed in 1939 by Ask the Dust. Though he made his living as a screenwriter, Fante was often out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams, and was not truly discovered as a great fiction writer until many years later.

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‘I’ll tell, then.’

They joined forces then, and threw him out of bed. He bumped against the floor, whimpering. The cold air seized him with a sudden fury and pricked him with ten thousand needles. He screamed and tried to get under the covers again, but they were stronger than he and he dashed around the bed and into his mother’s room. She was pulling on her cotton stockings. He was screaming with dismay.

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