Ask the Dust - John Fante

By John Fante

Release Date: 2010-05-18

Genre: Classics

4.5 (102 ratings)
"Either the work of John Fante is unknown to you or unforgettable. He was not the kind of writer to leave room in between." — New York Times

"Fante was my God."—Charles Bukowski

John Fante’s classic California novel details the adventures of his alter ego, Arturo Bandini, a young writer in Great Depression-era Los Angeles. Struggling to succeed, Bandini falls into an obsessive love affair with the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Yet just as fortune looms with the publication of his first novel, everything falls apart when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears—propelling Bandini to reject the writer’s life.

Ask the Dust - John Fante

By John Fante

Release Date: 2010-05-18

Genre: Classics

4.5 (102 ratings)
"Either the work of John Fante is unknown to you or unforgettable. He was not the kind of writer to leave room in between." — New York Times

"Fante was my God."—Charles Bukowski

John Fante’s classic California novel details the adventures of his alter ego, Arturo Bandini, a young writer in Great Depression-era Los Angeles. Struggling to succeed, Bandini falls into an obsessive love affair with the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Yet just as fortune looms with the publication of his first novel, everything falls apart when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears—propelling Bandini to reject the writer’s life.

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