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Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a

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Characters

John Fante (2)Charles Bukowski (1)

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.”

— John Fante, medium.com

Tagged: Los Angeles

“What I needed seemed to be absent everywhere.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Absence, Need

“I never thought of her as a thing to be considered by daylight. The many times I had seen her, none had been in the day. I expected her like I expected the moon.”

— John Fante, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Expectations, Darkness, mysterious, Impressions