Short Dog: Cab Driver Stories from the L. A. Streets
by Dan Fante
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"In the freewheeling, debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski, a taxi driver's stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeles. Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool, of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog (the title comes from street slang for a half-pint of alcohol): I had been back working a cabbie gig as a result of my need for money. And insanity. Hack driver is the only occupation I know about with show more no boss, and because I have always performed poorly at supervised employment, I returned to the taxi business. The upside, now that I was working again, was that my own boozing was under control and I was on beer only, except for my days off.s"-- show lessTags
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At its best Fante's writing is my absolute favorite kind of stuff: clear, no nonsense prose with an internalist narrative focus, and stories revolving around the flawed, oddball characters that populate most of everyday America.
The one piece that didn't impress, THEBOBBY, was written as play-like dialogue. The dialogue seemed rather stilted and was sometimes repetitive. However, 4-and-1/2 stars rounds up to 5 stars in my book.
The one piece that didn't impress, THEBOBBY, was written as play-like dialogue. The dialogue seemed rather stilted and was sometimes repetitive. However, 4-and-1/2 stars rounds up to 5 stars in my book.
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