Wait until Spring, Bandini av John Fante

I Wait until Spring, Bandini hamnar vi i Roklyn, Colorado på 20-talet.

Boken låter flera röster prata. Men alla finns dom där för att beskriva den värld som är Arturo Bandinis en snöig skitvinter. En liten kille som kämpar med kärleken, mot synden, med/mot sina föräldrar och bröder. Han går hungrig, han slåss, sjunger i kyrkokören, fryser och vill ha det bättre.

"His name was Arturo, but he hated it and wanted to be called John. His last name was Bandini, and he wanted it to be Jones. His mother and father were Italians, but he wanted to be American. His father was a bricklayer, but he wanted to be a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs."

Arturo Bandini återkommer i Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust och Dreams from Bunker Hill. Jag fick tips om Wait until Spring, Bandini av Peter.
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John Fante
Wait until Spring, Bandini. 1938.
Ecco 2002. 265 s. ISBN 0-87685-555-9
Road to Los Angeles
Ask the Dust
Dreams from Bunker Hill

Artiklar
A Walk on the Wild Side, The full life of John Fante av Carol Lynn Mithers, LA Weekly http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/20/books-mithers.php

John Fante
Alessandra Senzani
English 6923: Working Class Literature
Fall 2003
http://www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/Fante.htm