In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled...
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover...
»Der Mensch ist der Abschaum des Universums«, heißt es gleich in der ersten Geschichte, und die restlichen 35 geben Gelegenheit, diese Theorie zu überprüfen. Frauen und Männer, Schriftsteller und Dichter, Außenseiter...
in this place. there are the dead, the deadly and the dying.. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the. cross.. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow. on the...
"He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house--read 'em and weep."--Tom Waits
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. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1...
Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century....
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 a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and uncompromisingly...
To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski wasâand remainsâthe quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze,...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI & RAYMOND CARVERCharles Bukowski and Raymond Carver were credited as the fathers of the "Dirty Realism" genre in the 1980sâbranching out from minimalism, the stripping of fiction down to the least amount...
Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of anecdotal short stories demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and his mastery of visceral language...
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark,...
»Das gesamte Personal der Post muss in seiner völligen Hingabe an das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit immer standhaft und rechtschaffen bleiben. Vom Personal der Post wird erwartet, dass es nach den höchsten sittlichen Grundsätzen...
POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. A sequence of poems you'll want to read from beginning to end, Come On In! is Charles Bukowski at his sad, hilarious, renegade best Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness...