Ask the Dust
by John Fante
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0876854439
- ISBN 13
- 9780876854433
- Seller
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Caldwell, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Ask the Dust is the most popular novel of Italian-American author John Fante, that published in 1939 and set during Great Depression era in Los Angeles. It is one of a series of novels based around the character Arturo Bandini serving as his alter ego, a young Italian-American from Colorado struggling to make it as a writer in Los Angeles. The book is a roman à clef, much of it rooted in autobiographical incidents in Fante's life. The novel influenced Charles Bukowski significantly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Rubaiyat LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37829
- Title
- Ask the Dust
- Author
- John Fante
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0876854439
- ISBN 13
- 9780876854433
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Rosa, Ca
- Date Published
- January 1980
- Pages
- 165
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....