Name: The Road to Los Angeles
Rating: 3.571428571428572 (7 reviews)
ISBN: 9781841950495

John Fante

The Road to Los Angeles

I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldn’t sleep from the pain in my back. We were digging an excavation in an empty lot, there wasn’t any shade, the sun came straight from a cloudless sky, and I was down in that hole digging with two huskies who dug with a love for it, always laughing and telling jokes, laughing and smoking bitter tobacco.

M. Marques

Curiosity led me to this book, so I could see how this author influenced Bukowski and well, I do see the influence but this was terrible. It’s the most unlikable character I’ve ever read, there is no substance to the story, just a never ending rambling with big words and big references. Bleak.

The Road to Los Angeles

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