[Fante 01] • Fante

"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.