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Books by John Fante
THE SAGA OF ARTURO BANDINI
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
The Road to Los Angeles
Ask the Dust
Dreams from Bunker Hill
OTHER WORKS AND COLLECTIONS
Full of Life
The Brotherhood of the Grape
The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories of John Fante
1933 Was a Bad Year
West of Rome
The Big Hunger: Stories 1932–1959
Selected Letters 1932–1981
The John Fante Reader
Copyright
An edition of this book was previously published by Black Sparrow Press.
ASK THE DUST. Copyright © 1939, 1980 by John Fante. Introduction copyright © 1980 by Charles Bukowski. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Ecco edition published 2002.
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published 2006.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the Ecco edition as follows:
Fante, John, 1909–1983.
Ask the dust.
ISBN 0-87685-443-9 (paper edition)
ISBN 0-87685-444-7 (trade cloth edition)
I. Title.
PZ3.F218As 1979 [PS3511.A594] 813’.5’2 79-22399
ISBN-10: 0-06-082255-4 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-082255-2 (pbk.)
EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-201300-2
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John Fante, Ask the Dust
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