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Name: Ask the Dust

Author: John Fante
Year: 1939
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Classic, Romance

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ISBNs:
9780060822552
0060822554

Ask the Dust 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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"Wait Until Spring, Bandini"
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