Ask the Dust

Name: Ask the Dust
Author: John Fante

by John Fante

Novel of an Italian American writer struggling to survive and create in Los Angeles

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John Fante

John Fante was an Italian American novelist from Colorado whose autobiographical fiction of his alter ego Arturo Bandini—Ask the Dust is the best known—depicted the Los Angeles literary bohemia of the 1930s with operatic passion. Charles Bukowski championed his work.

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