Ask the Dust - John Fante

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Great Depression Los Angeles Roman à Clef The Saga Of Arturo Bandini

Written by John Fante
Read by Roger Wayne
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

John 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.

Introduction by Charles Bukowski

5 hrs and 39 mins
June 16, 2026