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Ask the Dust John Fante publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1939 refered to by: [De heilige Antonio] Arnon Grunberg
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Arturo Bandini is a twenty-year-old burgeoning writer, spending his days hungry for success, life and food in a dingy hotel in Los Angeles. Full of the enthusiasm of youth, and the thrill of having one short story published, the reality of poverty and prejudice has hit him hard. He meets a local waitress, Camilla Lopez, and embarks on a strange and strained love-hate relationship. Slowly, but inexorably, it descends into the realms of madness. Fante | depicts the highs and lows of the emotional state of Bandini with conviction, but without easy sentiment. In Ask the Dust, Fante is truly 'telling it like it is' as a poverty-stricken son of an immigrant in 'perfect' California. (Take note: this novel was first published by Stackpole sons in New York, but the newer edition, published by Black Sparrow Press in 1982, includes a fine introduction by Charles Bukowski.) |
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| BOOKS BY JOHN FANTE: Ask the Dust 1939 Fante describes the adventures of his alterego, Arturo Bandini, as the struggling young writer tackles Los Angeles in the late 1930s. | ||
| Wait Until Spring, Bandini 1938 The life of a poor Italian immigrant family in 1920s America. | ||
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