Ask the dust : a novel / John Fante ; with an introduction by Charles Bukowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fante, John, 1909-1983.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bandini, Arturo (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Bandini, Arturo.

Bandini, Arturo (Fictitious character).

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

California--Fiction.

California.

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

165, 24 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First HarperPerennial Modern Classics edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperPerennial Modern Classics, 2006.

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."--Publisher's website.

Young Arturo Bandini comes to Los Angeles to be a writer. A disappointing love affair and his poverty prove bitter and disillusioning.

Notes:

"First Ecco edition 2002."

Originally published: Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press, 1980.

"An ECCO book."

ISBN:

0060822554

9780060822552

OCLC:

63537603