Fante, John. The Road to Los Angeles (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996) 164 p.

Delusions of grandeur and sexual obsession cloud the mind of young Arturo Bandini. He goes to a branch of the Los Angeles Public Library to read books he cannot understand and becomes infatuated with the beautiful blond librarian, Miss Hopkins. The facts about Miss Hopkins are engulfed in Bandini's ravings. “Miss Hopkins was in the library every afternoon, floating on white legs in the folds of her loose dresses in an atmosphere of books and cool thoughts.” (p. 50).