Loved itgot this at a thrift store and I think I read that in one sitting, too. Good book.
Ask the dust (1939)
Others: Positive Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a single short story published in a small magazine, he meets local waitress Camilla Lopez and they embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship/ Slowly, but inexorably, it descends into the realms of madness. Ask the Dust is one of the truly great, yet unsung, American novels of the twentieth century. A tough and unsentimental story with a soft and tender hear, it remains as fresh and affecting as the day it was written.
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- 9780062013002
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- 208 pages
Genres: romance, historical fiction
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