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Some of his novels and short stories feature or focus on fictional incarnations of Fante's father, Nicola Fante, as a cantankerous, wine tippling, cigar stub-smoking bricklayer. In 1987, Fante was posthumously awarded the PEN USA President's Award.
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- April 8, 1909
- John Fante, Charles Bukowski
- May 8, 1983
- Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3) by John Fante, Charles Bukowski (Introduction)
- Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
- The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #2)
- The Brotherhood of the Grape.
And instead of the cold winters of John Fante’s Colorado, we open with Dan’s grandfather, Nicola, struggling to make a living in the Abruzzi mountains where the only way to make it is with one’s hands, mostly laying brick.
The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, and briefly attended the University of Colorado.
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Nicola Fante was a bricklayer and stonemason, who drank and gambled to excess, leaving the Fante family to experience bouts of poverty. Fante attended various Catholic schools including Regis High School, before briefly enrolling at the University of Colorado.
Jan 1, 1982 · The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, and briefly attended the University of Colorado.
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An Italian immigrant who came to America at an early age, Nick Molise earns a living as a bricklayer. His personal qualities - temperamental, womanizing, alcoholic, gambler - mark him as outside the fold of Puritan America. No wonder his son, in his Americanization progress, has constructed an identity by building on what his father was not.
