Full name: Short Dog: Cab Driver Stories from the L. A. Streets

Author: Dan Fante Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780941543453 0941543455

In this collection of 8 short fictions the author of A-Gin-Pissing-Raw-Meat-Duel-Carburetor-V8-Son-Of-A-Bitch From Los Angeles and Chump Change gives "a running commentary on the truth behind Los Angeles's gleaming fa ade— a life of brief encounters, desperation, addiction and the chasm-sized distance between people. Dan Fante takes the traditional cab driver 'knowledge' to a deeper place fueled by raw emotion, wine-guzzling existentialism and fleetingly poetic epiphanies. Here, the City of Angels' halo has definitely slipped"— Time Out Magazine. The work of Dan Fante, son of author John Fante, has also been praised by John Fowles and likened to "the genius of Bukowski and Hubert Selby, Jr."— Elle. Similar books: Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace An Actor's Life by Duncan Whitehead Selected Stories by Alice Munro Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel Dear Life by Alice Munro The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff Short Cuts by Raymond Carver City Solipsism by Zack Love The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud One Arm and Other Stories by Tennessee Williams The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff The Great Frustration by Seth Fried The Collected Stories by Grace Paley Collected Children's Stories by Sylvia Plath Rock Springs by Richard Ford