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Chump Change

Part of the Bruno Dante series

Fiction. The book follows the exploits of Bruno Dante. In New York his life is a train wreck and is turned into an upheaval when he gets the call from Los Angeles that his screenwriter father is in a coma and not expected to live. The next three weeks on the streets on the streets of L.A. will change Bruno Dante's life forever. The book expresses the bewilderment of its hero and its author with rawness, crudeness, and shock, and also serves as a very beautiful and touching homage to Fante's famous father John Fante.

Genre
crimenoir
Themes
addictionwriters
Setting
1990slos angeles
Subject
biographyself-help
Audience
picture books
Length
short · 198 pages

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