Ask the dust: a novel
by Fante, John
"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 f…
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- Full title :Ask the dust : a novel / John Fante ; with an introduction by Charles Bukowski.
Summary
"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"--
Young Arturo Bandini comes to Los Angeles to be a writer. A disappointing love affair and his poverty prove bitter and disillusioning.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1980
- Edition:First HarperPerennial Modern Classics edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):HarperPerennial Modern Classics
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1980
Notes
"First Ecco edition 2002."
Originally published: Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
"An ECCO book."
"(2006) - Robery Towne w. Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel, Justin Kirk" -from Collector's description.
The Physical Object
- Description:165, 24 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0060822554, 9780060822552
- oclc:ocm63537603
- LC Classification:PS3511.A594
- Dewey Decimal:813/.52
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