Ask the Dust

<p><strong>Either the work of John Fante is unknown to you or unforgettable. He was not the kind of writer to leave room in between. -- <em>New York Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>Fante was my God.--Charles Bukowski</strong></p><p>John Fante's second book details the adventures of his alter ego Arturo Bandini a young writer in Los Angeles in the late 1930s. Struggling to succeed Bandini falls in love with the elusive mocking unstable Camilla Lopez a Mexican waitress. Yet just as fortune looms with the publication of his first novel everything falls apart when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears--propelling Bandini to reject the writer's life.</p>