Ten months after his father's death, Bruno Dante has straightened himself out and gotten a real job, but his life is turned upside-down again when he meets femme fatale Jimmi Valiente, an ex-gangbanger, lap-dancer, and crackhead.

Fiction. The book follows the exploits of Bruno Dante. In New York his life is a train wreck and is turned into an upheaval when he gets the call from Los Angeles that his screenwriter father is in a coma and not expected to live. The next three weeks on the streets on the streets of L.A. will change Bruno Dante's life forever. The book expresses the bewilderment of its hero and its author with rawness, crudeness, and shock, and also serves as a very beautiful and touching homage to Fante's famous father John Fante.

After hitchhiking from L.A. to New York, Bruno Dante, an inspired young playwright, struggles with depression and alcoholism as he tries to stay afloat in Manhattan's sea of cynicism and alienation. Original.

Product Description: First edition. 2001. Brand new, perfect condition.

Signed and numbered hardcover trade.