A collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that the inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music, the author of this book mixes high and low culture in his 'tales of ordinary madness'. These are angry yet tender, humorous and haunting portrayals of life in the underbelly of Los Angeles.
A collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that the inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music...
At the age of 50 Henry Chinaski is living the life of a rock star, running 300 hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Bukowski's novel is a riotous account of life lived on the edge.
At the age of 50 Henry Chinaski is living the life of a rock star, running 300 hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Bukowski's...
Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski follows the path of his alter ego Henry Chinaski as he meanders his way through America drifting from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. His downward spiral is peppered with black humour.
Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski follows the path of his alter ego Henry Chinaski as he meanders his way through America drifting from one dead-end j...
Charles Bukowski's debut novel introduces his alter ego Henry Chinaski. Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office job supports his life of beer, one-night stands and race-tracks.
Charles Bukowski's debut novel introduces his alter ego Henry Chinaski. Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post O...
A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what was once only familiar. Crumb has illustrated the text with 12 full-page drawings and a portrait of Bukowski.
A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously re...
From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. An informative introduction by editor David Stephen Calonne provides historical context for these seemingly scandalous and chaotic tales, revealing the hidden hand of the master at the top of his form.
"The uncollected gutbucket ramblings of the grand dirty old man of Los Angeles letters have...
From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One...
