How long does it take to read Ask the Dust (P.S.)?
Ask the Dust (P.S.) by John Fante takes about 3 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 165 pages, about 45,375 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.
Subjects: Fiction, Young men, Man-woman relationships, American Authors, California, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction
