num_pages: 165
description: "Fante was my god." —Charles Bukowski, in his introduction to Ask the DustArturo Bandini, a young, struggling Italian-American writer living in a seedy hotel in 1930s Los Angeles, falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. The pair embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship, which slowly, but inexorably, 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 (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
characters: Arturo Bandini, Camilla Lopez
genres: 20th Century, American, Americana, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 34061
places: Los Angeles, California
series: The Saga of Arturo Bandini
publisher: Pyramid Books