num_pages: 165
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, 20th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, American, Literary Fiction, Americana, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 34060
places: Los Angeles, California
series: The Saga of Arturo Bandini
publisher: Black Sparrow Pr