Book Cover Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust

of John Fante, Charles Bukowski (Introduction)

Series: The Saga of Arturo Bandini #3

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Ask the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American 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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Fiction Fiction Classics Novels American Literature The United States Of America Americana Romance 20th Century Literary Fiction

Main Characters

Arturo Bandini Camilla Lopez

Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 165 pages
  • Publisher Ecco
  • Publication Date February 7th 2006
  • First Publication 10/28/39
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780060822552
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
  • Scenario ['Los Angeles, California (United States)']

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