| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||

› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski'
More editions of Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Ask the Dust'
More editions of Ask the Dust:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Betting on the Muse'
A perfect accompaniment to Bukowski's letters, this collection of BOTH stories and poems gives you more bang for the buck -- a whopping 402 pages of Bukowski's unique voice. He can spin you a yarn with his story or poem just like he's sitting there having a beer with you. A classic American writer who'll bet his bottom dollar on the working stiff and the tough times -- his Muses -- using the language of a true visionary. If you haven't read Bukowski, isn't it time you started? [via]

› Find signed collectible books: 'Bukowski in the Bathtub'
More editions of Bukowski in the Bathtub:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame'
More editions of Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame : Selected Poems 1955-1973'
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.
[via]More editions of Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame : Selected Poems 1955-1973:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship'
More editions of The Captain Is Out to Lunch: And the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Bukowski'
More editions of Charles Bukowski:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Bukowski: Laughing With the Gods Interview'
More editions of Charles Bukowski: Laughing With the Gods Interview:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life'
Charles Bukowski - onetime bum, longtime alcoholic, and the author of now-classic novels such as Post Office, Factotum, and Women - rose from obscurity to become world famous. His semiautobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure and culminated in the making of Barfly, a major Hollywood film based on Bukowski's life. In this new biography, Howard Sounes has drawn on years of exhaustive research - including new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, his family, and his many lovers, as well as unprecedented access to his private letters and unpublished writing - to reveal the extraordinary true story of the Dirty Old Man of American literature. Illustrated with over sixty never-before-published photographs, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life also includes original drawings by Bukowski and unique contributions by friends, including Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, and Harry Dean Stanton. Interspersed with telling excerpts from Bukowski's poetry and prose, including several unpublished works, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is a must for Bukowski devotees and new readers alike. "Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is a generous tribute to Bukowski's genius and it clearly and truthfully captures the essence of Bukowski both as writer and man." - John Martin, Black Sparrow Press, Bukowski's lifelong editor-publisher and literary executor. [via]
More editions of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dangling in the Tournefortia'
There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure.
[via]More editions of Dangling in the Tournefortia:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Days Run Away Like Wild Horses'
More editions of Days Run Away Like Wild Horses:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills'
More editions of Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Drinking With Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row'
More editions of Drinking With Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness'
Bukowski stories from underground newspapers [via]
More editions of Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Factotum'
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.
[via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems'
More editions of The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems'
More editions of The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ham on Rye'
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]
More editions of Ham on Rye:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hollywood'
Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter. Based on Bukowski's experiences when working on the film Barfly, the absurdity and egotism of the film industry are laid bare in this deadpan, touching and funny glimpse into the endless negotiations and back-stabbings of La-la land. "Hollywood" is an irreverent roman - clef that serves up the beating heart of Hollywood with razor-sharp humour. [via]

› Find signed collectible books: 'Hot Water Music'

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of East Hollywood : A Biography of Charles Bukowski'
More editions of The Hunchback of East Hollywood : A Biography of Charles Bukowski:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Night of the Earth Poems'
More editions of The Last Night of the Earth Poems:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Is a Dog from Hell'
Description not available [via]
More editions of Love Is a Dog from Hell:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977'
More editions of Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Mockingbird Wish Me Luck'
More editions of Mockingbird Wish Me Luck:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories'
More editions of The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Movie'
The screenplay of the 1987 movie, as written by Charles Bukowski.
[via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man'
More editions of Notes of a Dirty Old Man:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Open All Night: New Poems'
These 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski's that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994.
[via]More editions of Open All Night: New Poems:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Play the Piano Drunk'
Book description to come. [via]
More editions of Play the Piano Drunk:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit'
More editions of Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Post Office'
"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 out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novelthe one that catapulted its author to national fameis the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.
[via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pulp'

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Roominghouse Madrigals'
More editions of The Roominghouse Madrigals:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Roominghouse Madrigals : Early Selected Poems 1946-1966'
More editions of The Roominghouse Madrigals : Early Selected Poems 1946-1966:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Run With the Hunted'
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]

› Find signed collectible books: 'Run With the Hunted'
More editions of Run With the Hunted:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960 - 1970'
More editions of Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters, 1960-1970:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Septuagenarian Stew'
More editions of Septuagenarian Stew:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare Never Did This'
More editions of Shakespeare Never Did This:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems'
More editions of Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems'
More editions of Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems:

› Find signed collectible books: 'South of No North'
More editions of South of No North:
› Find signed collectible books: 'South of No North; Stories of the Buried Life.'
South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.
[via]More editions of South of No North; Stories of the Buried Life.:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Spinning Off Bukowski'
More editions of Spinning Off Bukowski:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993'
More editions of Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Ordinary Madness'
With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle groundpeople seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.
More editions of Tales of Ordinary Madness:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Visceral Bukowski: Inside The Sniper Landscape Of L.A. Writers'
More editions of Visceral Bukowski: Inside The Sniper Landscape Of L.A. Writers:

› Find signed collectible books: 'War All the Time'

› Find signed collectible books: 'War All the Time: Poems, 1981-1984'
More editions of War All the Time: Poems, 1981-1984:

› Find signed collectible books: 'What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire'
More editions of What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Women'
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.
With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.
[via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense'
Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.
[via]More editions of You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense:

› Find signed collectible books: 'El Capitan Salio a Comer'
More editions of El Capitan Salio a Comer:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Erecciones, Eyaculaciones, Exhibiciones'
Este es el primer libro publicado en Espana de un autor entonces desconocido, que alcanzo rapido gran popularidad. En pocos anos paso de escritor maldito a leyenda viviente. Los relatos de este libro parecen extraidos de las tripas ulcerosas de su narrador, escritos entre ataques de delirium tremens, orgias y fantasias alcoholicas, con el crudo lenguaje de la calle como nadie lo habia hecho. [via]
More editions of Erecciones, Eyaculaciones, Exhibiciones:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Escritos De Un Viejo Indecente'
Con sus relatos, reunidos en este volumen, escritos en total libertad, el autor se convirtió de inmediato en una celebridad, una "leyenda viviente" cuya fama fue aumentando vertiginosamente con la publicación de sus otros libros de relatos y poemas. Con su brutalidad, su salvaje y tierno sentido del humor, su tremenda sinceridad, Bukowski consigue, con su estilo descarnado y escueto, conectar inmediatamente con el lector. [via]
More editions of Escritos De Un Viejo Indecente:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Pulp'
More editions of Pulp:
