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86'd (2009)

by Dan Fante(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061779229 (ISBN13: 9780061779220)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Perrenial

series

Bruno Dante

review 1: The second two books of the Bruno Dante quadrology, if it is such a thing are a bit less horrifying but much smoother in tone, voice. Better written than the first two. 86'd being the last one is a really great denouement to the whole saga. Recovery is fricking tough. Despite having none of the substance abuse problems of the main character, I grokked his struggles to become the writer he wants to be under all the self loathing and addictions. I grok that hard. I recommend reading them all.
review 2: At the end of Chump Change I wondered if Fante would be able to keep up the pace for 3 more semi-autobiographical novels. I also wondered whether I could keep up if in fact he did. Now having read them in close succession I can say that he’s kept it interesting w... moreithout wearing me out. Bruno Dante continues to be a serial juicer with a masochistic edge and a deep dislike of people. With women, his relationships (if they can be called that) are cruel and dehumanizing, almost as bad as the jobs he takes to support his habits. As a boiler room salesman, taxi driver, movie usher, window washer, limo driver and working in other terrible jobs Bruno is in one bad situation after another. All the while he is trying to put his words on paper, scratching out poems in the cab or typing short stories in his motel room. The stories were hard to read, but the prose was direct and approachable. In the end I’d say reading these books is like having an eloquent tour guide to the dark side of a city you don’t care about: I don’t think I wanted to know more about these aspects of life, but I couldn’t resist Fante as a story teller. less

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