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Chump Change ('rebel Inc' S.)

Chump Change ('rebel Inc' S.)

by Dan Fante (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

Chump Change is a largely autobiographical novel and as such is a moving homage to the author's father John Fante, the acclaimed LA novelist who so heavily influenced and inspired Charles Bukowski. Chump Change tracks three crazy weeks in the turbulent, alcohol-bingeing life of Bruno Dante as he awaits the death of his father, Jonathan Dante, a talented fiction writer who in later life sells his soul for Hollywood gold. The result is a harrowing descent through a Hollywood hell that roars with anger at the falseness of American values and is both deadpan hilarious and deeply moving.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 04 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 0862419581
ISBN 13: 9780862419585

Media Reviews
a brutally honest, sometimes poisonous raging against the system, God, Los Angeles, life in general and the alcoholic's plight in particular. It was also funny, satirical and touching, yet without sentimentality. * * Scotland on Sunday * *
Uncommonly well written and has an almost fatal fascination. * * The Herald * *
careering from from mishap to disaster in a series of darkly comedic vignettes involving a flea-bitten bull terrier named Roco, a runaway teenage prostiute whose chronic stutter can only be cured by booze, and an interlude working for a telephone dating agency in which Bruno sabotages his career prospects by seducing his first client. Chump Change is a book which drags the reader through every sweat, tremor and degenerate convulsion of the alcoholic's existence. * * Daily Telegraph * *
Author Bio
Dan Fante was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is the son of writer John Fante. Dan Fante has worked dozens of crummy jobs. He hopes eventually to meet a fat waitress and learn to play the harmonica. Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the brilliant final chapter in the Bruno Dante trilogy, which is opened by Chump Change and also includes Mooch.