Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

By John Fante

Pages

224

Rating

4.10

Year

1938

FictionClassicsAmericanLiteratureNovelsThe United States Of America

Description

A powerful, lyrical and touching tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty, and religion in a small town, Wait Until Spring, Bandini tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, the oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression. With its powerful and evocative account of tragic love affairs, grinding poverty and adolescence in turmoil, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.