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  Ask the Dust (Paperback) By (author) John Fante, Introduction by Charles Bukowski

  

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  Short Description for Ask the Dust"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 C...
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  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Published: 07 February 2006
  • Format: Paperback 165 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780060822552 ISBN 10: 0060822554
  • Sales rank: 19,686

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Full description for Ask the Dust

• "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.