Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times
From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86’d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dan’s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family’s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man—and the calling—that once had driven him away.
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Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times
From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86’d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dan’s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family’s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man—and the calling—that once had driven him away.
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Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times
From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86’d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dan’s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family’s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man—and the calling—that once had driven him away.
Dan Fante is the author of the memoir Fante, the novels 86'd, Chump Change, Mooch, and Spitting Off Tall Buildings, and several books of poetry, short stories, and plays. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
What People are Saying About This
Mary Dearborn
“What a story. Riveting, harrowing, and extremely moving. Dan Fante’s been to hell and back and taken notes along the way.”
Neil Strauss
“This book is a knockout, with all the down-and-out, kick-you-in-the-teeth, unflinching prose of self-taught street writers like Herbert Huncke and Hubert Selby, Jr. Dan Fante is now entrenched on my list of self-sabotaging, self-abusing fuckup writer anti-heroes.”
John Fowles
“The Fantes, father and son, have been a major new discovery for me . . . I can’t think of the West Coast without them.”
Carolyn Kellogg
“[Fante] is frank and funny. Dan does not lionize or demonize his father, nor does he indulge in the self pitying or self gratifying aspects of memoir. Its an achievement in tone and delightful to read.”
Michael Connelly
“If writing is fighting, then Dan Fante goes fifteen rounds and stays standing. This is a fascinating story about two hard-edged men, survival and the passion to live and to write.”
Willy Vlautin
“A brilliant memoir. John and Dan Fante are two sides of the same coin. Both battered but resilient, they’re writers who have written with pure honesty and blood and never gave up. It’s one of the best memoirs I’ve read in years.”
Ben Meyers
“If you like your prose vodka-soaked, soulful, and bleeding on the page, then Fante is your man.”
Ron Shelton
“Dan Fante’s writing grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let you go. It’s authentic, gritty, and yet full of a flawed beauty found in the strangest places and the hardest people.”
