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Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780060822552
- ISBN-10: 0060822554
- Publisher: Ecco Press
- Publish Date: February 2006
- Dimensions: 8.05 x 5.34 x 0.45 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.32 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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