Ask the Dust [SEP] narrative location
Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust is the most popular novel of Italian-American author John Fante, first published in 1939 and set during the Great Depression-era in Los Angeles. It is one of a series of novels featuring the character Arturo Bandini as Fante's alter ego, a young Italian-American from Colorado struggling to make it as a writer in Los Angeles.
The novel is widely regarded as an American classic, regularly on college syllabi for American literature. The book is a "roman à clef
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Exhibition Highlights Ask the Dust (1988-1992) and Location Proposals #2, #4 and #6 (1997-2005).
For her series "Ask the Dust," she selected a scene from 21 films (one for each year 1954-1974) and photographed each location from the cameraman’s original vantage. "Two Roads" (1991)