- Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Man-woman relationships in fiction, Alcoholics in fiction
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last.
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Classical in form, spare, character-led and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Charles Bukowski
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Star Books, Grasset, Virgin
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Russian, French
- ISBN
- 9780061542459
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“I was 50 years old and hadn't been to bed with a woman for four years.”
Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, and is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having over 60 books in print. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife."
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