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Ask the Dust (1939), the second novel in John Fante's Arturo Bandini series, is a semi-autobiographical tale of ambition, love, and disappointment in Los Angeles during the Great Depression. A classic of American literature, discovered thanks to Bukowski.
The plot of the novel revolves around the beautiful girl Sofka.
In this work, the author treats two types of characters in parallel. Some are real, realistic official detectives, and others are detective characters as formed by the creative thought and talent of the writers.
Marie, an illegitimate girl, tells the story of her mother, Mad Genie, a girl from a good home who, rejected by her family after an 'accident' that happened to her, becomes a village maid.