Ask the Dust

John Fante

Original title: Ask the Dust (P.S.)

earliest edition we have, 2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 paperback 165 pages

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 b...

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Ask the Dust (P.S.) paperback · 2009 · Ecco · 192 pages · 9780061807305
Ask the Dust (P.S.) paperback · 2006 · Harper Perennial Modern Classics · 165 pages · 9780060822552

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