Ask the Dust 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 fought so hard to attain.

Author: John Fante
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 02/07/2006
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.34w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780060822552