Full name: Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving

Author: Dan Fante Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780062027092 9780062027368 0062027093 0062027360

"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." '€”New York Times From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family'€™s legacy'€”one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86'€™d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dan'€™s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family'€™s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man'€”and the calling'€”that once had driven him away. Similar books: Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman The Way It Was by Eliot Weisman Amazing Faith by Michael Richardson John Wayne by Scott Eyman Albert Camus by Catherine Camus Max Perkins by A. Scott Berg Once Blind by Kay Marshall Strom Genius in Disguise by Thomas Kunkel Ben Hogan by James Dodson The Life and Diary of David Brainerd by David Brainerd Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn Becoming Richard Pryor by Scott Saul The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James Koestler by Michael Scammell My Brain is Open by Bruce Schechter