Ask the Dust

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Author: Fante, John Brand: Ecco Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 192 Release Date: 07-02-2006 Part Number: 21355435 Details: Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influen tial 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. EAN: 9780060822552 Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches Languages: English Show more