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Ask the Dust 

 (Bandini Quartet, book 2)

by

John Fante

Ask the Dust

(The second book in the Bandini Quartet series)
(1939)
A novel by

John Fante

 

This book is another sterling recommendation from the Saltzman workshop. The under-appreciated Fante's second outing details the adventures of his alterego, Arturo Bandini, as the struggling young writer tackles Los Angeles in the late 1930s. And take it from personal experience, tackling L.A. as a destitute young scribe some decades later isn't much different. In other words: Fante gets it right and sets it down in his Chianti-steak-and-potatoes style, with prose both simple and rich. This Black Sparrow edition has a bonus: Charles Bukowski's great preface on how Fante stacks up against writers that were at once more famous--and far more anemic.
 
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Hardback Editions

June 2002 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0876854447Title: Ask the Dust
Author(s): John Fante
ISBN: 0-87685-444-7 / 978-0-87685-444-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade
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2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000NWZWFITitle: ASK THE DUST. Preface by Charles Bukowski.
Author(s): John: Fante
Publisher: Prentice-Hall,
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1999 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000KTBREETitle: Ask the Dust
Author(s): John Fante
Publisher: Black Sparrow
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January 1980 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0876854455Title: Ask the Dust
Author(s): John Fante
ISBN: 0-87685-445-5 / 978-0-87685-445-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
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Paperback Editions

April 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0061129798Title: Ask the Dust Tie-In
Author(s): John Fante
ISBN: 0-06-112979-8 / 978-0-06-112979-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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February 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0060822554Title: Ask the Dust (P.S.)
Author(s): John Fante
ISBN: 0-06-082255-4 / 978-0-06-082255-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000KUHYKYTitle: ASK THE DUST
Author(s): JOHN FANTE
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS TRADE DIVISION
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November 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 184195330XTitle: Ask The Dust
Author(s): John Fante
ISBN: 1-84195-330-X / 9781841953304 (UK edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books
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February 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0862419875Title: Ask the Dust ("Rebel Inc." Classics)
Author(s): John Fante
ISBN: 0-86241-987-5 / 978-0-86241-987-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
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October 1998 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0862418399Title: Ask the Dust ("Rebel Inc")
Author(s): John Fante
ISBN: 0-86241-839-9 / 978-0-86241-839-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Rebel inc.
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1996 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B0013IVFV6Title: Ask The Dust
Author(s): John Fante
Publisher: Santa Rosa Black Sparrow Press
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1994 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000HJR868Title: Ask The Dust
Author(s): John FANTE
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
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1991 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000EG460KTitle: Ask the Dust
Author(s): John Fante
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
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1987 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000K3X716Title: Ask The Dust
Author(s): John Fante
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
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October 1985 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0586064249Title: Ask the Dust (Panther Books)
Author(s): John Fante
ISBN: 0-586-06424-9 / 978-0-586-06424-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Grafton
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1984 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000LZDUTCTitle: Ask the Dust
Author(s): John Fante
Publisher: Black sparrow press
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January 1980 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0876854439Title: Ask the Dust: Novel
Author(s): John Fante, Charles Bukowski
ISBN: 0-87685-443-9 / 978-0-87685-443-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
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1979 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000INU7PCTitle: ASK THE DUST
Author(s): John Fante
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
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1954 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000LBY4V4Title: Ask the Dust
Author(s): John Fante
Publisher: Bantam Books 1194
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Other Editions

1939 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0006AOPJQTitle: Ask the dust,
Author(s): John Fante
Publisher: Stackpole sons
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