Name: Ask the Dust
Rating: 4.40 (2 reviews)
Author: John Fante

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Asking the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel.  It's the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer who falls hard for the beautiful and slightly crazy Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress.  Bandini keeps writing, even though he's not sure he'll ever be successful as a writer, but when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears .  .  .  Bandini forever rejects writing. 

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Ask the Dust

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