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Ask the Dust Trade paperback - 2006
by John Fante
- Used
- Paperback
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Details
- Title Ask the Dust
- Author John Fante
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco, New York
- Date February 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 38994
- ISBN 9780060822552 / 0060822554
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.34 x 0.45 in (20.45 x 13.56 x 1.14 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects California, Bildungsromans
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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.
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