Mooch (P.S. Series)

by Dan Fante

Overview

In Mooch, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is finally sober, and has become the best boiler-room salesman in L.A. But Dan Fante’s anti-hero can’t keep a good thing going. Leaping headfirst into an impossibly destructive love-hate relationship with the addictive ex-stripper Jimmi Valiente, Bruno finds it’s not long at all before his world begins to spiral out of control…again.With prose that seeps with brutal aggression and biting wit, Fante portrays the unavoidable self-destruction of a man whose inner demons won’t allow him to live within the limitations of society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061779251
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/01/2009
Series:	P.S. Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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

Anthony Bourdain

“Breathtaking writing. . . . Angry, acerbic, self-pitying and often painfully funny. . . Read it at your peril.”

Editorial Reviews

Dark and bleak, dirty and real. . . . Dan Fante’s style is raw, insightful, and deftly realized.” — Time Out New York

“Breathtaking writing. . . . Angry, acerbic, self-pitying and often painfully funny. . . Read it at your peril.” — Anthony Bourdain

“This devastating and terrifying book . . . sees Fante writing the kind of emotionally tormented novel that his father would surely have written if he’d been born into Dan’s generation.” — Uncut

From the Publisher

This devastating and terrifying book . . . sees Fante writing the kind of emotionally tormented novel that his father would surely have written if he’d been born into Dan’s generation.

Uncut

Dark and bleak, dirty and real. . . . Dan Fante’s style is raw, insightful, and deftly realized.

Time Out New York

Breathtaking writing. . . . Angry, acerbic, self-pitying and often painfully funny. . . Read it at your peril.

Anthony Bourdain