John Fante Selected Letters 1932-1981
John Fante
- Fante's
- captivating
- letters
- trace
- his
- emergence
- from
- poverty
- to
- life
- as
- a
- Hollywood
- screenwriter.
- Complemented
- by
- many
- photos
- and
- interesting
- appendices,
- the
- book
- is
- most
- distinguished
- by
- Fante's
- letters
- to
- his
- mother-letters
- in
- which
- he
- is
- just
- as
- apt
- to
- lie
- about
- church
- attendance
- as
- he
- is
- to
- describe,
- with
- peculiar
- candor,
- skinny-dipping
- with
- a
- girl friend.
