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  The Road to Los Angeles (Paperback) By (author) John Fante

  

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  Short Description for The Road to Los AngelesI 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 ...
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  • Publisher: Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
  • Published: 01 November 1986
  • Format: Paperback 164 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780876856499 ISBN 10: 0876856490
  • Sales rank: 67,112

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• 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.