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Ask The Dust

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Description for Ask The Dust Paperback.
Arturo Bandini arrives in Los Angeles with big dreams. But the reality he finds is a city gripped by poverty. When he makes a small fortune from the publication of a short story, he reinvents himself, indulging in expensive clothes, fine food and downtown strip clubs. But Bandini's delusions take a worrying turn when he is drawn into a relationship with Camilla Lopez, a beautiful but troubled young woman who will be responsible for his greatest downfall. Ask the Dust is an unforgettable novel about outsiders looking in on a town built ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786896209
SKU
9781786896209
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About John Fante
John Fante was born in Denver on 8 April 1909 and migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante ... Read more

Reviews for Ask The Dust
Written of and from the gut and the heart . . . Fante was my god
Charles Bukowski A powerful and moving read

Guardian

A tough and beautifully realised tale - affecting, powerful and poignant

Time Out

This stunning novel, as Charles Bukowski's 1980 foreword outlines, was ... Read more

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