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Charles Bukowski
A selection of the best poetry from America’s most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski.
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.
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The autobiographical coming-of-age modern classic by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century.
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Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks.
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Charles Bukowski lays bare Hollywood, revealing the absurdity and egotism behind the glamour.
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‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet ‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny…
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Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives.
Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Celine - who’s meant to be dead - but he’s…
A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached…
Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers…
He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years. Neeli Cherkovski was a close friend of Bukowski and is…
The perfect gift book for the literary cat lover - musings on the magical mystique of our feline friends, from American icon Charles Bukowski
Barry Miles
Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life, Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers and hustlers, the drunks and the…
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Gay Brewer
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
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Michael Gray Baughan
The Great Writers series explores the lives of some of the most talked about literary figures of the past half-century. A favorite of students for his poetry of raw angst…
David Stephen Calonne
In this new interpretation of the life and work of the American poet, short story writer and novelist Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne examines Bukowski’s writings, colourful life and the…
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Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer’s seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski’s own brand of humour and realism, opening up…
I saw a tramp last night the way the old dog walked with dotted, tired fur down nobody’s alley being nobody’s dog …past the empty vodka bottles past the peanut…
The never-before-published letters of Charles Bukowski on the art of writing.
The best of Bukowski’s novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience…
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A collection of poetry, short stories, memoirs, book excerpts, interviews, and essays about Charles Bukowski as well as portraits of the author from over 75 writers and artists around the…
Smriti Vats,Astha Bhargav,Ritu Sharma
The present book aims at discussing critically the autobiographical tones in the fiction of Charles Bukowski with special reference to his two famous novels Ham on Rye and Women. An…
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2016 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers – Title page verso.
The book captures hauntingly the sense of loneliness, alienation, and aloneness that underlies the 27 short stories in this volume.
Despite having published over fifty books in his lifetime, many important stories and articles have remained dispersed and unedited. This volume is an anthology of these scattered works. Beginning with…
En este libro inolvidable, escrito con una ausencia total de ilusiones, se transparenta, evitando la autocompasion, una estoica fraternidad con todos los CHINASKIS, y todos los UNDERDOGS de la otra…
Writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in dirty…
Bukowski is said to have carefully kept his best poems to be published after his death. This posthumous anthology contains some of this previously unpublished work.
Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the…
Presents a second compilation of extraordinary, never-before- published poetry from one of America’s greatest modern writers and most influencial poets. By the author of Sifting Through the Madness for the…
Stories published in underground newspapers, Evergreen Review, etc
Taitulos de las ediciones originales: Notes of a dirty old man, Essex House, 1969; Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions and general tales of ordinary madness, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1972.
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…
Charles Bukowski was one of America’s best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poems were…
Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column Notes of A Dirty Old Man for the underground newspaper Open City. Perennially drunk, broke and in search of a woman, Bukowski takes…
Bukowski tells the powerful story of a man who wanders the streets, moving from job-to-job to support his favorite pastimes–women, drinking, gambling, and writing. Soon to be coming to the…
A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on…
This collection of stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, include such tales as Ten Jack-offs , My Big-Assed Mother and A Lovely Love Affair .
Slouching Toward Nirvana is the third of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great Charles Bukowski, the uncrowned poet laureate of Los Angeles. – Los Angeles Times.
if you read this after I am dead It means I made it - The Creation Coffin The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections…
A collection of short stories that focus on themes ranging from Los Angeles and bar culture to alcoholism, gambling, sex and violence.
