Download or read book The Road to Los Angeles written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.