Ask the Dust

John Fante

Original title: Ask the dust

earliest edition we have, 1980 Canongate Crime, 1999 paperback 208 pages

Panther Books

Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a single short story published in a small magazine, he meets local waitress Camilla Lopez and they embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship/ Slowly, but inexorably, it descends into the realms of madness. Ask the Dust is one of the truly great, yet unsung, American novels of the twentieth century...

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Editions we hold

Ask the Dust edition · 2018 · Canongate Books · 208 pages · 9781786896209
Ask the Dust ebook · 2010 · HarperCollins · 9780062013002
Ask The Dust edition · 2008 · Canongate Books · 9781847673657
Ask the Dust paperback · 2002 · Canongate Books Ltd · 208 pages · 9781841953304
Ask the Dust edition · 2000 · Canongate Books · 208 pages · 9780862419875
Ask the Dust paperback · 1999 · Canongate Crime · 208 pages · 9780862418397
Ask the dust. edition · 1985 · Granada
Ask the dust edition · 1980 · Black Sparrow Press · 165 pages

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