Ask The Dust
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2018
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Main - Canons reissue
Canongate Canons (Verlag)
978-1-78689-620-9 (ISBN)
Canongate Canons (Verlag)
978-1-78689-620-9 (ISBN)
One of the great novels of L.A., a semi-autobiographical story of a struggling writer ('Fante was my God', Charles Bukowski)
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.
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.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.09.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Canons |
| Einführung | Charles Bukowski |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 144 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78689-620-6 / 1786896206 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78689-620-9 / 9781786896209 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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