Selected Letters 19321981 Author:John Fante, Seamus Cooney (Editor) Fante's captivating letters trace his emergence from poverty to life as a Hollywood screenwriter. Complemented by many photos and interesting appendices, the book is most distinguished by Fante's letters to his mother -- letters in which he is just as apt to lie about church attendance as he is to describe, with peculiar candor, skinny-d... more »ipping with a girl friend.« less