"One day after the races, I sat down and wrote the heading Notes of a Dirty Old Man, opened a beer and the writing got done by itself.. Just sit by the window, lift the beer and let it come. Anything that wanted to arrive, arrived." This collection...
the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the . cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures;. Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job. as a waitress; and. the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he. giggled up through the . soot.....
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...
"People come to my door-too many of them really-and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends...
Mit diesem lapidaren Satz beginnt Charles Bukowski einen illusionslosen Roman, der sich nirgends über die Perspektive eines jungen Mannes erhebt, der essen, trinken und gelegentlich eine Frau haben will und dafür arbeiten muss. Was kann daran...
from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane" . young young young, only wanting the Word, . going mad in the streets and in the bars,. brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women . screaming in. your cheap room,. you a familiar guest...
This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling...
Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait...
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...
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 a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.
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. A must for this counterculture...
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.