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This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. Though his physical escape is complete, the psychological damage remains. / El cuarteto de novelas protagonizadas por Arturo Bandini –álter...

He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside...

In 1994, Stephen Cooper, biographer of John Fante, scholar of his work and preparer of this edition, visited the writer's widow, who after many conversations allowed him to enter a secret room where manuscripts, drafts, numbers of old magazines and other papers were kept....

Henry Molise, a 50 year old successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Typical of Fante's novels, it's autobiographical, and brimming with love, death, violence, and religion. / El mejor cantero de...