Harper Collins Publ. USA Ask the Dust

"""Either the work of John Fante is unknown to you or unforgettable. He was not the kind of writer to leave room in between."" - New York Times ""Fante was my God.""-Charles Bukowski John Fante's second book details the adventures of his alter ego, Arturo Bandini, a young writer in Los Angeles in the late 1930s. Struggling to succeed, Bandini falls in love with the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Yet just as fortune looms with the publication of his first novel, everything falls apart when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears-propelling Bandini to reject the writer's life. " ...