Book · 1939 · Fiction
Ask the Dust
Harper Perennial Modern Classics (HarperCollins) · 165 pages
★ 6.2 editorial score
Arturo Bandini starves in a Bunker Hill hotel in Depression Los Angeles, wanting to be a great writer and loving a Mexican waitress he cannot stop insulting. Bukowski called Fante his god.
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