Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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Wait Until Spring, Bandini
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Title page for Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1983 edition)
Author John Fante
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBandini Quartet
Genre Roman à clef
Publisher Stackpole Books
Publication date
1938 (1938)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Followed by The Road to Los Angeles  

Wait Until Spring, Bandini is a novel by American author John Fante. Released in 1938, it was his first published novel. The book is set in a small-town in Colorado and tells the story of the Bandini family during a winter in the Great Depression. It is the first book in the Bandini Quartet, a semi-autobiographical series of books about Arturo Bandini, the son of Italian immigrants to the United States. [1] [2] The novel was adapted into a 1989 film of the same name starring Joe Mantegna as Svevo Bandini, Ornella Muti as Maria Bandini, and Faye Dunaway as Mrs. Hildegarde.

References

  1. "Wait Until Spring, Bandini". Canongate . Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  2. "Fante's inferno". The Guardian . Retrieved December 8, 2021.