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Ask the Dust

By John Fante

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Year
2006
ISBN
0060822554, 9780060822552
Open Library ID
OL7282480M
Language
english
Format
LIT
Filesize
191 kB (195746 bytes)
Pages
164\0
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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.

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