Spitting Off Tall Buildings

✍ Scribed by Dan Fante

• Publisher: Canongate Books;HarperCollins e-Books
• Year: 2001;2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1841951900

✦ Synopsis

Bruno Dante -- aspiring playwright, part-time depressive, and full-time drunk -- has hitchhiked cross-country, escaping the sunshine, have-a-nice-day culture of L.A. for the more cynical climate of New York. It seems to be his kind of town. But he's Bruno Dante, and things are always bound to go wrong.

He finds himself in the rut of deadbeat temping jobs, but they don't last. Dante won't play office politics or kiss ass. Longer stints as the night manager of a run-down hotel, a window cleaner, and, finally, a cabbie are punctuated by a number of meaningless affairs, drinking binges, and the customary bouts of depression.

Beautiful and brutal in equal measures, Fante's insights are once again fiercely compelling, desperately compassionate, and obscenely funny. Unmissable.

From the Back Cover

"Fante writes hard, emotive prose in which every word matters." The Face

"Fante writes like a screwed-up Chandler, living the life that most only ever write about." Morning Star

Spitting off Tall Buildings is the last episode in the Bruno Dante trilogy. This time Dante finds himself in New York, needing work. The type of work available to a man like Dante is rarely challenging or interesting. Work is more often just a battle to survive - a struggle with his inner demons before they screw things up for him. He tries his hand at countless jobs; movie theatre usher, hotel night manager, belt sales man, taxi driver and window cleaner of tall buildings amongst others. But nothing lasts, Dante is not a man who jells with bosses well.

This is the desperate plight of a man and his addiction. A man who uses alcohol to suppress the noises in his head, and who drinks to escape the wretchedness of his predicament, but whose drinking is jeopardising his one raison d'etre - his writing.

Dan Fante is the son of the late John Fante acclaimed writer of 1933 Was a Bad Year. Dan Fante drank for 20 years, married three times and worked in more dead-end jobs than he can remember. Now sober, he has written three novels, a play and a collection of poetry.

Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781841951904