Pre-Owned Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante (Paperback) 1883318580 9781883318581

9781883318581. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 400. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Contains: Illustrations.

In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles. If ever a writer presented an enigma to the literary world, it was Fante--who grappled at once with brilliance and cruelty, yet presented a talent that has been equated with that of America's finest writers. From his home near L.A.'s Bunker Hill and his days filled with frustration, rage and love, Fante's life is at one with his characters' lives, but Cooper pinpoints the parallels and the divergences.

Fante had a mighty effect upon me . . . Fante was my god. --Charles Bukowski

The best literary biographies always bring you back to the work, and Stephen Cooper's Full of Life certainly does that. I read it all at once, on fire with its feeling for a man who lived as hard and full as he wrote. Cooper does justice to Fante. --Thom Jones, author of The Pugilist at Rest

Fante lived and wrote first in this beautiful, taxing, still-being-born city. What he left us is invaluable. And Stephen Cooper has respectfully magnified this legacy by giving us this truly terrific biography. --Carolyn See