Detailed view for the Book: Ask the Dust

Title:

Ask the Dust
 

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Genres:

Classic

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1939-00-00 Bantam Books  

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Blurb: 
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.