About the Book: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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 writers life he fought so hard to attain.
About the Author: John Fante
John Fante began writing in 1929