Ask The Dust
«A powerful and moving read»
* Guardian *
Arturo Bandini arrives in Los Angeles with big dreams. But the reality he finds is a city gripped by poverty.
When he makes a small fortune from the publication of a short story, he reinvents himself, indulging in expensive clothes, fine food and downtown strip clubs. But Bandini's delusions take a worrying turn when he is drawn into a relationship with Camilla Lopez, a beautiful but troubled young woman who will be responsible for his greatest downfall.
Ask the Dust is an unforgettable novel about outsiders looking in on a town built on celluloid dreams.
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Arturo Bandini arrives in Los Angeles with big dreams. But the reality he finds is a city gripped by poverty.
When he makes a small fortune from the publication of a short story, he reinvents himself, indulging in expensive clothes, fine food and downtown strip clubs. But Bandini's delusions take a worrying turn when he is drawn into a relationship with Camilla Lopez, a beautiful but troubled young woman who will be responsible for his greatest downfall.
Ask the Dust is an unforgettable novel about outsiders looking in on a town built on celluloid dreams.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Canongate Canons
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 208
- ISBN
- 9781786896209
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
John Fante was born in Denver on 8 April 1909 and migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties.
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in
The Road to Los Angeles,
Ask the Dust and
Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays, in his seventy-four years, including
The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and
1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). He was recognised in 1987 with a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award in Los Angeles, four years after his death.
Anmeldelser
«A powerful and moving read»
* Guardian *
«A tough and beautifully realised tale - affecting, powerful and poignant»
* Time Out *
«This stunning novel, as Charles Bukowski's 1980 foreword outlines, was the reason he became a writer. Is there any better recommendation?»
* Uncut *
«Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his discovery is not before time»
* Times Literary Supplement *
«Written of and from the gut and the heart . . . Fante was my god»
Charles Bukowski