FULL OF LIFE: A Biography of John Fante by Stephen Cooper - 2000

First edition 2000. Book design by Jonathan D. Lippincott. Jacket photograph by Joyce Fante, Jacket design by Susan Mitchell, Author photograph by Gino Cooper. Published by North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dust jacket is clean and bright with very minor surface scuffing. Cover is clean and crisp with no marks. Pages are clean and unmarked. In the first comprehensive biography of John Fante, one of the great lost souls of twentieth-century literature, Stephen Cooper untangles the enigma of an authentic American original. By turns savage and poetic, violent and full of love, such underground novels as The Road to Los Angeles; Ask the Dust; and Wait Until Spring, Bandini simultaneously reveal and disguise their author. Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante Author Stephen Cooper Edition illustrated North Point Press, 2000 ISBN 0865475547, 9780865475540 406 pages Biography & Autobiography ' Literary BMK18 3314 wrapped beige paper