Ask The Dust

Author: John Fante

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  • : $29.95 AUD
  • : 9780060822552
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : January 2006
  • : 18.55
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  • : John Fante
  • : Paperback / softback
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Barcode 9780060822552
9780060822552

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.