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“Ask the Dust” by John Fante
“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 by him 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.”
Taken from HarperCollins.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fante
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-ask-the-dust/
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/07/entertainment/et-john-fante7
The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in reading this recommendation, you can check its availability at library catalogue.
Ask the dust / John Fante; Introduction by Charles Bukowski. — Edinburgh: Canongate, 2002. — 198 p. ; 20cm
ISBN 978-1-84195-330-4
PS3511.A594 A93 2002
