Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780062013002
ISBN-13 : 0062013009
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Ask the Dust by : John Fante

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young 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.

John Fante's Ask the Dust

John Fante's Ask the Dust
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Publisher : Fordham University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780823287888
ISBN-13 : 0823287882
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis John Fante's Ask the Dust by : Stephen Cooper

This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact. The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings. A must-read for aficionados of L.A. fiction and new migration literature, John Fante’s “Ask the Dust”: A Joining of Voices and Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante studies to reveal the novel’s evolving intertextualities and intersectionalities. Contributors: Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, Giovanna DiLello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Philippe Garnier, Robert Guffey, Ryan Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams

Prologue to Ask the Dust

Prologue to Ask the Dust
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 44
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105001743678
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Prologue to Ask the Dust by : John Fante

The Bandini Quartet

The Bandini Quartet
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Publisher : Canongate Books
Total Pages : 769
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ISBN-10 : 9781782116004
ISBN-13 : 1782116001
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bandini Quartet by : John Fante

Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised.

The Road to Los Angeles

The Road to Los Angeles
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Publisher : Rebel Incorporated Classics
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 1841950491
ISBN-13 : 9781841950495
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Road to Los Angeles by : John Fante

Dreams from Bunker Hill

Dreams from Bunker Hill
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 9780062013064
ISBN-13 : 0062013068
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreams from Bunker Hill by : John Fante

My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twenty-one years old, living in a world bounded on the west by Bunker Hill, on the east by Los Angeles Street, on the south by Pershing Square, and on the north by Civic Center. I was a busboy nonpareil, with great verve and style for the profession, and though I was dreadfully underpaid (one dollar a day plus meals) I attracted considerable attention as I whirled from table to table, balancing a tray on one hand, and eliciting smiles from my customers. I had something else beside a waiter's skill to offer my patrons, for I was also a writer.

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Wait Until Spring, Bandini
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9780062013170
ISBN-13 : 0062013173
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Wait Until Spring, Bandini by : John Fante

He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.

The Dust That Falls from Dreams

The Dust That Falls from Dreams
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 554
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ISBN-10 : 9781101946497
ISBN-13 : 1101946490
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dust That Falls from Dreams by : Louis de Bernieres

From the acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin, here is a sumptuous, sweeping, powerfully moving new novel about a British family whose lives and loves are indelibly shaped by the horrors of World War I and the hopes for its aftermath. In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era the McCosh sisters—Christabel, Ottilie, Rosie and Sophie—grow up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London. On one side, their neighbors are the proper Pendennis family, recently arrived from Baltimore, whose close-in-age boys—Sidney, Albert and Ashbridge—shake their father’s hand at breakfast and address him as “sir.” On the other side is the Pitt family: a “resolutely French” mother, a former navy captain father, and two brothers, Archie and Daniel, who are clearly “going to grow up into a pair of daredevils and adventurers.” In childhood this band is inseparable, but the days of careless camaraderie are brought to an abrupt halt by the outbreak of The Great War, in which everyone will play a part. All three Pendennis brothers fight in the hellish trenches at the front; Daniel Pitt becomes an ace fighter pilot with his daredevil tendencies intact; Rosie and Ottilie McCosh volunteer in the hospitals, where women serve with as much passion and nearly as much hardship as the men at the front; Christabel McCosh becomes one of the squad of photographers sending “snaps” of their loved ones at home to the soldiers; and Sophie McCosh drives for the RAF in France. In the aftermath of the war, as “the universal joy and relief were beginning to be tempered by . . . an atmosphere of uncertainty,” everyone must contend with the modern world that is slowly emerging from the ashes of the old. A wholly immersive novel about a particular time and place, The Dust That Falls from Dreams also illuminates the timeless ways in which men and women carry profound loss alongside indelible hope.

Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9780545517126
ISBN-13 : 0545517125
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold) by : Karen Hesse

Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

Drawing in the Dust

Drawing in the Dust
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9781416599128
ISBN-13 : 1416599126
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Drawing in the Dust by : Zoe Klein

Scorned for agreeing to help an Arab couple excavate allegedly haunted grounds under their house, archaeologist Page Brookstone finds what may be the tomb of the prophet Jeremiah, as well as the remains of a woman, and intriguing scrolls documenting their relationship.