Ask the Dust
Author(s): John Fante; Charles Bukowski
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.
Product Information
A powerful and moving read - Guardian
General Fields
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- : Canongate Books
- : Canongate Books
- : 30 April 2012
- : 01 July 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Fante; Charles Bukowski
- : 208