Point Doom

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Down-and-out ex-private investigator J.D. Fiorella is trying to get back on his feet. After years of travelling from coast to coast and too many failed business ventures to count, he moves back in with his mother in the Point Doom community of California. J.D. befriends Woody at one of his AA meetings, and Woody helps him get a job selling used cars at a local dealership. Just as things start to look up for J.D., trouble hits Point Doom. When J.D's only friend is gruesomely murdered, J.D.'s old habits kick in and he embarks on a mission of revenge.

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Praise for Dan Fante: "This writer has the telemarketer's skill for keeping the mooch on the line: readers who don't hang up right away very likely won't be able to stop listening." -- New York Times

"A powerful read from a writer who's lived what he writes and writes what he lived, 86'd stands out as yet another example of Fante's unique voice and bottoms-up, scraped-off-the-sidewalk prose." -- Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

"Told in a free-flowing narrative style that features a number of memorable characters, Fante's novel is dark, bleak, gritty, and inventively vulgar. It's also honest, painful, and occasionally tender." -- Booklist

Author Bio

Dan Fante is the author of the memoir Fante, the novels 86'd, Chump Change, Mooch, and Spitting Off Tall Buildings, and several books of poetry, short stories, and plays. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.