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Ask The Dustby John Fante, Charles BukowskiISBN 0060822554 (0-06-082255-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ask The Dust'Book summary:This book is another sterling recommendation from the Saltzman workshop. The under-appreciated Fante's second outing details the adventures of his alterego, Arturo Bandini, as the struggling young writer tackles Los Angeles in the late 1930s. And take it from personal experience, tackling L.A. as a destitute young scribe some decades later isn't much different. In other words: Fante gets it right and sets it down in his Chianti-steak-and-potatoes style, with prose both simple and rich. This Black Sparrow edition has a bonus: Charles Bukowski's great preface on how Fante stacks up against writers that were at once more famous--and far more anemic. [via]
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Come on In!by Charles BukowskiISBN 0060577061 (0-06-057706-1)
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Come on In!: New Poemsby John Martin, Charles BukowskiISBN 0060577053 (0-06-057705-3)
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Factotumby Charles BukowskiISBN 006113127X (0-06-113127-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Factotum'Book summary:One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
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The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poemsby Charles Bukowski , John MartinISBN 0060577029 (0-06-057702-9)
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The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poemsby John Martin, Charles BukowskiISBN 0060577010 (0-06-057701-0)
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Ham on Ryeby Charles BukowskiISBN 006117758X (0-06-117758-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ham on Rye'Book summary:Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, Ham on Rye, is the semi-autobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. It is a finely written and honest account of the painful childhood of a boy marked out from his peers. Regularly beaten by his father, Chinaski is shown growing through his difficult and violent adolescence (struck with the worst case of acne his doctors have ever seen) through to the first jobs he can't and won't hold down. In this moving story of growing up Bukowski disciplines his muscular, concentrated writing and creates a novel that distils his poetry into the finest full-length piece of prose that he ever wrote. Bukowski is often good but in Ham on Rye he's great.
Sadly, best known as the alcoholic inspiration for the film Barfly (an experience he reflected on in his book Hollywood), it is as a poet, rather than a drunk, that Bukowski should be best remembered. His bitter, caustic, direct, humane, damaged poetry reflects a life dominated by poverty and booze. His poetry stretches over many, many volumes but Bukowski also wrote great novels: all of them have many faults but the first four books he wrote shine for similar reasons. Post Office and Factotum both dissect, quite brilliantly, the life of an angry, poor man forced to do mindless jobs, pushed around and considered mindless by the fools who force him to do them. Women, as Roddy Doyle points out in his short introduction, continues the themes but focuses on the numerous women who share his hero's bed and bottle. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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The People Look Like Flowers at Last: New Poemsby Charles BukowskiISBN 0060577088 (0-06-057708-8)
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The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993by Charles Bukowski , John MartinISBN 0061228435 (0-06-122843-5)
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Post Officeby Charles BukowskiISBN 0061177571 (0-06-117757-1)
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Run With the Huntedby Charles Bukowski , John MartinISBN 0060169117 (0-06-016911-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Run With the Hunted'Book summary:The first anthology of the author's autobiographical novels, stories, and poems is organized chronologically to chronicle the life of this counterculture hero. By the author of Post Office. National ad/promo. [via]
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Run With the Huntedby John Martin, Charles BukowskiISBN 0060924586 (0-06-092458-6)
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Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Readerby John Martin, Charles BukowskiISBN 0060169931 (0-06-016993-1)
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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poemsby Charles BukowskiISBN 0060568232 (0-06-056823-2)
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Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poemsby Charles Bukowski , John MartinISBN 0060577045 (0-06-057704-5)
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Womenby Charles BukowskiISBN 0061177598 (0-06-117759-8)
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