Ask the Dust
Author | : John Fante |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2010-05-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780062013002 |
ISBN-13 | : 0062013009 |
Rating | : 4/5 (009 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Ask the Dust by : John Fante
Download or read book Ask the Dust written by John Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.