Have you ever found something to be desired so strongly to get to zero and almost hate you just to reach the object of desire? And if your answer was yes and all that you desire slipped away from say, leaving the ground only a handful of dust ... if you happened to this then you also have included the title of the novel by John Fante and how you found him there to ask questions to the desert dust.
Desert real or spiritual devastation that is.
Ask the Dust is without a doubt the most famous novel by John Fante, Bukowski I think when he declared in a famous interview "in libraries is a writer who was shouting through his books" (talking about Jack) was referring specifically to this work of Italian-American writer, just Ask the Dust. It could be summed up as the story of a writer (author of the dog laughs , history without dogs in the novel has the distinction of not being read by anyone) and his unrequited love for a girl, or you could make all the love affair between two immigrants in America early last century, or to put it all we could say that this novel is a universal treaty on dreams, the despair and the human passions, and passions coming to erase identity: Bandini, Fante's alter ego is always on the line of the shadow of his soul, almost ready to renounce and to innovate in the shoes of that Sammy suffered from tuberculosis to the desert just to have the love of Camilla Lopez. In nineteen chapters written thesis, dissertation only as the desire may be, also develops to a film produced by Salma Hayek (is there next to my DVD player but I have not the courage to look at it) the book became a classic of American literature last century. And after reading it you will talk to the desert
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