{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a single short story published in a small magazine, he meets local waitress Camilla Lopez and they embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship/ Slowly, but inexorably, it descends into the realms of madness. Ask the Dust is one of the truly great, yet unsung, American novels of the twentieth century. A tough and unsentimental story with a soft and tender hear, it remains as fresh and affecting as the day it was written."}, "title": "Ask the dust", "covers": [4399673], "subject_places": ["California"], "subjects": ["Arturo Bandini (Fictitious character)", "Authors", "Fiction", "Literature", "Man-woman relationships", "Young men", "California, fiction", "Man-woman relationships, fiction", "Fiction, romance, general", "Authors, fiction", "Bandini, arturo (fictitious character), fiction", "Fiction, historical, general", "Fiction, general", "Los angeles (calif.), fiction"], "key": "/works/OL77327W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL39411A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7623096A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-16T10:23:53.515424"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-20T18:04:35.039452"}}