num_pages: 198
description: Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a single short story published in a small magazine, he meets local waitress Camilla Lopez and they embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship. Slowly, but inexorably, it descends into the realm of madness.Ask the Dust is one of the truly great, yet unsung, American novels of the twentieth century. A tough and unsentimental story with a soft and tender heart, it remains as fresh and affecting as the day it was written.
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: 34066
places: Los Angeles, California
series: The Saga of Arturo Bandini
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd