Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini #3)
Author: John Fante
Desc: Ask the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini a young Italian-American writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive mocking unstable Camilla Lopez a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive he perseveres until at last his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.