Ask The Dust

Author: John Fante; Charles Bukowski

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  • : 22.99 AUD
  • : 9780857862372
  • : Canongate Books
  • : Canongate Books
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  • : 0.157
  • : 01 May 2012
  • : 198mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 22.99
  • : 01 July 2012
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  • : John Fante; Charles Bukowski
  • : Paperback
  • : 4
  • : 208
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Barcode 9780857862372
9780857862372

Description

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.

Reviews

A powerful and moving read - Guardian