Ask The Dust

John Fante (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2012 | Main - Canons Imprint Re-issue
Canongate Canons (Verlag)
978-0-85786-237-2 (ISBN)

Infos

With an introduction by Charles Bukowski

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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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Einführung: Charles Bukowski
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Gewicht: 157 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-85786-237-5 / 0857862375
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85786-237-2 / 9780857862372
• Zustand: Neuware