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I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldnāt sleep from the pain in my back. We were digging an excavationā¦
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First up in Fanteās famous quartet of Bandini novelsāThe Road to Los Angeles is a literaryāTour De Force. The central narratorāArturo Bandiniāis stuck out in Boulder Colorado, where it is freezing cold, and nothing ever happens. Not surprisingly a young Arturo is keen to escape to warmer climes, and pursue a writing career in Hollywood. Immediately I could relate to the books central idea, as I was keen to do exactly the same at exactly the same age, albeit on the other side of the world. This novel introduces Fante's alter ego Arturo Bandini who reappears in Wait Untilā¦
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