The road to Los Angeles

John Fante First published 1985

About this book

I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldn't sleep from the pain in my back. We were digging an excavation in an empty lot, there wasn't any shade, the sun came straight from a cloudless sky, and I was down in that hole digging with two huskies who dug with a love for it, always laughing and telling jokes, laughing and smoking bitter tobacco.

Subjects

  • arturo bandini (fictitious character)
  • authors, fiction
  • bandini, arturo (fictitious character), fiction
  • brothers and sisters, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • literature
  • los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • novelists
  • young men