{"product_id":"ask-the-dust-john-fante","title":"Ask the Dust (John Fante)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Either the work of John Fante is unknown to you or unforgettable. He was not the kind of writer to leave room in between.\" - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fante was my God.\"-Charles Bukowski\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Fante's classic California novel details the adventures of his alter ego, Arturo Bandini, a young writer in Great Depression-era Los Angeles. Struggling to succeed, Bandini falls into an obsessive love affair 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Fante began writing in 1929 and published his first short story in 1932. His first novel, \u003cem\u003eWait Until Spring\u003c\/em\u003e, Bandini, was published in 1938 and was the first of his Arturo Bandini series of novels, which also include \u003cem\u003eThe Road to Los Angeles\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAsk the Dust\u003c\/em\u003e. A prolific screenwriter, he was stricken with diabetes in 1955. Complications from the disease brought about his blindness in 1978 and, within two years, the amputation of both legs. He continued to write by dictation to his wife, Joyce, and published \u003cem\u003eDreams from Bunker Hill\u003c\/em\u003e, the final installment of the Arturo Bandini series, in 1982. He died on May 8, 1983, at the age of seventy-four.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade Paperback, Englisch, 192 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65812089635165,"sku":"K024570934","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/2457093400001A.jpg?v=1788529288","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/ask-the-dust-john-fante","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}