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Title: Mooch by Dan Fante, Anthony Bourdain ISBN: 1-84195-069-6 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Bible for telemarketeers...You ought to read it!
Comment: Fast paced Bukowski. Only glimps of his old man's writing. Dan figured, it will sell better, especially overseas. It is good, but not better than Chump Change. It took me some pages to 'warm-up' to this work, but still finished in one afternoon.
Yes, it is good and i hope he gets the recognition his father didn't.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fante's latest is stunning
Comment: Bruno Dante and Jimmi Valiente's relationship seems hopeless throughout "Mooch," but the ending is a heartbreaker you won't expect.
Fante's prose is improved from "Chump Change" -- snappier and smoother. The incidental characters are still thin, but Jimmi comes across like a lightning bolt, and Fante handles her Spanglish dialect perfectly.
Although the author still speaks through a psychotic, antisocial character who couldn't be bothered to give a damn about the world around him except for what he can get out of it, he still makes you want Dante to come out of his tailspin and break the "curse" of the family, self-destructive alcoholicism.
A few editorial missteps occasionally distracted me while reading this book -- little typos like "born" instead of "borne," spelling Puerta Vallarta wrong and some confusing misuses of commas -- but overall the books reads cleanly and quickly.
Addiction is everywhere in the text -- to drugs, sex, money, even literary success -- and if you find you need another fix of the kind of hotshot writing Fante makes seem easy, you can't go wrong with his father, John Fante, or his clear influence, Bukowski. More recent writers who share this space are Denis Johnson, Larry Brown and Barry Hannah.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fante's latest is stunning
Comment: Even thought Bruno Dante and Jimmi Valiente's relationship seems hopelessly doomed throughout this book, the ending is still a heartbreaker.
Fante's prose is improved from "Chump Change" -- snappier and smoother. The incidental characters are still thin, but Jimmi comes across like a lightning bolt, and Fante handles her Spanglish dialect perfectly.
And though Fante still speaks through a psychotic, antisocial character who couldn't be bothered to give a damn about the world around him except for what he can get out of it, he still makes you want Dante to come out of his tailspin and break the "curse" of the family, self-destructive alcoholicism.
A few editorial missteps occasionally distracted me while reading this book -- little typos like "born" instead of "borne," spelling Puerta Vallarta wrong and some confusing misuses of commas -- but overall the books reads cleanly and quickly.
Addiction is everywhere in the text -- to drugs, sex, money, even literary success -- and if you find you need another fix of the kind of hotshot writing Fante makes seem easy, you can't go wrong with his father, John Fante, or his clear influence, Bukowski. More recent writers who share this space are Denis Johnson, Larry Brown and Barry Hannah, all of whom I recommend.
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Title: Spitting Off Tall Buildings by Dan Fante ISBN: 1841951900 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Chump Change by Dan Fante ISBN: 0941543234 Publisher: Sun Dog Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Gone Bamboo by Anthony Bourdain ISBN: 1582341036 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain ISBN: 0060934913 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain ISBN: 1582341028 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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