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Sara Habein’s #CBR4 Review #17: Fante by Dan Fante

Fante by Dan FanteFante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
by Dan Fante

Part biography, part memoir, and part love letter, Dan Fante’s captivating book interweaves his father’s history with his own. We all have our troubles and our passions, he seems to say, but here is how we dove into ours. Father and son, driving, failing, trying again, perhaps a little more bitterly this time. Both writers, both alcoholics, both prone to explosions of emotion. Here is how we managed existence.

Read my full review at Glorified Love Letters.

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