John Fante - Wait till spring, Bandini. Gift book bound in leather.

John Fante is an American writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. The author of novels and short stories, a classic of American literature of the XX century, who came to the modern reader rather late. The honor of its rediscovery belongs to another great outcast of fine literature - Charles Bukowski: "...Like a man who found gold in a city dump, I went to the table with a book. The lines rolled easily across the page, one continuous flow. Each line had its own energy beating, and behind it - another line, and another, and another. The very substance of each line gave the page a shape, it felt like something was embedded in it. Here, finally, is a man who was not afraid of emotions. Humor and pain were intertwined with amazing simplicity. The beginning of this book seemed to me a wild and impossible miracle...".