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Overview
He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.
Synopsis
He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.
Gale Research
Edward M. White, writing in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, described Wait until Spring, Bandini as "an affecting and unified book portraying the painful family situation of Arturo Bandini, a young adolescent obviously modeled after the author." Mangan believed that Wait until Spring, Bandini was "a lucid and strikingly unsentimental account of a close-knit family struggling, against the odds, to survive hard times with dignity; and its most impressive achievement is the central portrait of [Bandini's] parents." Mangan concluded that the novel "proved to be [Fante's] masterpiece."