John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter who is seen today as a powerful pre-Beat writer who wrote one of the most influential and important novels of the last 70 years.
Wait Until Spring, Bandini tells the story of a Catholic Italian-American family living in poverty in the depths of a miserable, cold winter in Depression-era Colorado.
Svevo said, if God is everywhere, why do I have to go to church on Sunday? Why can’t I go down to the Imperial Poolhall? Isn’t God down there, too?
"Every bit as good as anything that Steinbeck wrote." I agree.
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