Mooch ("Rebel Inc" S.) - Softcover

Fante, Dan

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841950696 ISBN 13: 9781841950693

Publisher: Rebel inc., 2000

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Bruno Dante has cleaned him himself up and straightened out; he's attending A.A. and is back on the mooch, selling computer printer supplies for a militaristic disciplinarian in a company staffed by a motley crew of ex-addicts and alcoholics. Then he meets Mexican femme fatale, Jimmi Valiente, a former gang-banger, lap dancer, and crackhead, and once again Dante's world begins to go into free fall.

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Review:

"Breathtaking writing. . . . Angry, acerbic, self-pitying and often painfully funny. . . Read it at your peril."--Anthony Bourdain

"This devastating and terrifying book . . . sees Fante writing the kind of emotionally tormented novel that his father would surely have written if he'd been born into Dan's generation."--Uncut

"Dark and bleak, dirty and real. . . . Dan Fante's style is raw, insightful, and deftly realized."--Time Out New York

Dark and bleak, dirty and real. . . . Dan Fante s style is raw, insightful, and deftly realized. --Time Out New York"

Breathtaking writing. . . . Angry, acerbic, self-pitying and often painfully funny. . . Read it at your peril. --Anthony Bourdain"

This devastating and terrifying book . . . sees Fante writing the kind of emotionally tormented novel that his father would surely have written if he d been born into Dan s generation. --Uncut"

From the Back Cover:

Dan Fante's anti-hero, Bruno Dante is back. Ten months after the death of his legendary father, he has cleaned himself up, straightened out, and is back on the wagon.

Dante is also back on the mooch, selling computer supplies for an all-American straight guy in a company staffed with a motley crew of ex-addicts and alcoholics.

But when Orbit Computer Supplies hires the beautiful Jimmi Valiente, a Mexican femme fatale with a gang-banger background, Dante's world once again prepares to go into free fall.

Like the Oscar-winning movie, American Beauty, Dan Fante's Mooch is another nail hammered straight into the heart of the American Dream. And like his superb debut novel, Chump Change, Mooch provides further proof that Fante is a contemporary writer of enormous power, pathos, humanity and humour.

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