Ask the dust /
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| Author / Creator: | Fante, John, 1909-1983 |
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| Imprint: | Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press, 1980. |
| Description: | 165 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/328951 |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 165 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0876854447 0876854439 0876854455 |