Mooch
by Dan Fante
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In Mooch, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is finally sober, and has become the best boiler-room salesman in L.A. But Dan Fante's anti-hero can't keep a good thing going. Leaping headfirst into an impossibly destructive love-hate relationship with the addictive ex-stripper Jimmi Valiente, Bruno finds it's not long at all before his world begins to spiral out of control...again.With prose that seeps with brutal aggression and biting wit, Fante portrays the unavoidable show more self-destruction of a man whose inner demons won't allow him to live within the limitations of society. show lessTags
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El aspirante a escritor Bruno Dante lleva meses sin escribir una sola linea. Vive en un edificio de acogida para ex alcohólicos y se gana lavida vendiendo aspiradoras de puerta en puerta hasta que lo despiden. Libro desvastador y aterrador.
Apr 22, 2013Spanish
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- Epigraph
- ...he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.
(Isaiah 61.1) - Dedication
- This book is dedicated to my older brother,
Nicholas Joseph Fante, 1942-1997.
Dead from Alcoholism. Crushed like a dog in the street. - First words
- I hadn't written a word or a story or anything in months.
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