John Fante A Critical Gathering

This book offers eleven essays on FanteOs career, ranging from close thematic analysis of individual stories and novels to broadly informed assessments of FanteOs life and art in the context of his times. Major areas explored in the book include FanteOs treatment of the Italian-American experience; his relationship to other American writers of the 1930s and beyond; the deeply Catholic nature of FanteOs fiction; his unique and still-seminal vision of Los Angeles; and his lifelong concern to render in fiction both the comedy and the horrors of the writing life.