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Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.
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Ask the Dust, John Fante
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Ask the Dust
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Fante
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 165
- ISBN10
- 0060822554
- ISBN13
- 9780060822552
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, USA, Relationships, American Literature, English Literature, Adapted for Film, America, Writers, Success, Los Angeles, Perpetrator, 1930s, Novels about Artists
- First published
- 1939
- Original title
- Ask the Dust
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.