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By Dan Fante. Connected stories provides a running commentary on the truth behind Los Angeles's gleaming facade—a life of brief encounters, desperation, addiction, and the chasm-sized distance between people—SHORT DOG digs into the dark landscape of the real America. In eight brutally honest short stories, Dan Fante takes the traditional cab driver "knowledge" to a deeper place, fueled by raw emotion, wine-guzzling existentialism and fleetingly hopeful epiphanies. Here the City of Angels' halo has definitely slipped.
"Dan Fante’s world is unremittingly ugly, but like Ishmael he has
lived to tell the tale. In his father’s novel “The Road to
Los Angeles,” Bandini’s Filipino co-workers command him to “go
home and write book about puke.” Dan Fante has. Luckily, this writer
has the telemarketer’s skill for keeping the mooch on the line:
readers who don’t hang up right away very likely won’t be
able to stop listening. Those readers may end up feeling a bit corrupted
themselves, but they’ll probably finish this collection of unapologetic
confessions in a single sitting." -- The New York Times Softcover; 120 pages.
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