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Title: 1933 Was A Bad Year
Condition: New
EAN: 9781841951928
ISBN: 9781841951928
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 08/10/2001
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 127mm
Item Width: 6mm
Item Weight: 81g
Author: John Fante
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1841951927
Description:

John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to start writing. In a life that spanned 74 years, Fante wrote several great novels, such as Ask the Dust, and numerous screenplays. He died in 1983 from diabetes-related complications.

Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to the big leagues, big recognition and big love. He struggles, though, against the reality of his Italian parents, and comes under pressure to go into the family business. Brick-laying is not for Dominic. His father, however, seeks to pre-empt the inevitable road to failure by wanting Dominic to pick up a trowel instead of a pitcher's glove. His mother's response is to pray.
At once the story of class and an individual's struggle during hard times in America, 1933 was a Bad Year is a wonderful tale of childhood and its dissipation into adulthood.

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