\'The world\'s bleakest romantic comedy\' -- Los Angeles Times "An exuberant, extravagant chronicle of gestation which romps through to the final production of the Fante\'s firstborn in high Italianate style and immerses a succession of hair-raising to breast-beating sequences in tears -- and Chianti."-- Kirkus "The universe of John Fante\'s fiction is so immediately moving, so poetically vivid, that it is hard to decide which is the greater quandary: that it went s. \'The world\'s bleakest romantic comedy\' -- Los Angeles Times "An exuberant, extravagant chronicle of gestation which romps through to the final production of the Fante\'s firstborn in high Italianate style and immerses a succession of hair-raising to breast-beating sequences in tears -- and Chianti."-- Kirkus "The universe of John Fante\'s fiction is so immediately moving, so poetically vivid, that it is hard to decide which is the greater quandary: that it went s
