Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini #1)

John Fante


4.04 · 24 ratings · Published: 1938

Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante
It is going to be a cold winter in Rocklin, Colorado for the family of Svevo Bandini. The immigrant Italian bricklayer is spending his money at the Imperial Poolhall and his time at the widow Hildegarde's.

His angelic wife Maria stays at home, cleaning, praying, dreading the arrival of her fearsome mother. Their youngest son Arturo desperately of baseball, the movies, girls – everything American; and even Rosa Pinelli, who is Italian but can't help it either...

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