Spitting Off Tall Buildings

✍ Scribed by Fante, Dan

• Book ID: 106897817
• Publisher: Canongate U.S.
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 159 KB
• Series: Bruno Dante 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781841951904

✦ Synopsis

Review

“As we trawl with him through deadbeat and dead-end jobs, this unsettling novel is haunted by the spectre of Charles Bukowski.” (The Times (London) )

“Moments which brush the genius of Bukowski and Hubert Selby.” (Elle (France) )

“It gives an honest misfit’s view of America far too few know.” (John Fowles )

“Dan Fante’s novel does an excellent job of delivering this tale of depraved despair with a steady one-two-punch rhythm that hurts like hell while still being impossible to put down.” (Sacramento Book Review )

“A truly great American novel.” (Scotland on Sunday )

“Evokes brutally and skillfully the violently numb condition of his alter ego.” (The Times (London) )

Product Description

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. "As we trawl with him through deadbeat and dead-end jobs, this unsettling novel is haunted by the spectre of Charles Bukowski." -The Times (London) "Fante is a brilliantly economical stylist ... sad, bitter, yet somehow infused with hope." -- The Face