num_pages: 208
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.
language: English
title: Ask the Dust
titlecomplete: Ask the Dust
characters: Camilla Lopez, Arturo Bandini
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Americana, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 34069
places: Los Angeles, California
series: The Saga of Arturo Bandini
publisher: Canongate Crime