Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144946 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-05
• Released on: 2002-08-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

About the Author

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry when he was thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three. During his lifetime he published over forty-five books of poetry and prose—many translated into more than a dozen languages. His worldwide popularity remains undiminished, and Ecco is proud to publish the five posthumous collections of his work (this volume is the fifth and final) in addition to a new selection of his later works, The Pleasures of the Damned.

Customer Reviews

A Raucous Good Time
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R27PF6CT4ON2CQ This book is a jolly good time and I hope you like the review.

Women
Truly a masterpiece and definitely one of my favorites from Bukowski. Very exciting and refreshing read that will provide you with a glimpse into the world of an addict writer and his encounters with women.

Good writing, but not interesting
I saw Barfly and didn't like it, and Factotum too for that matter. With so many raves about the author, I thought I should try the books. Now, I can be a misogynist, but the "fictional" accounts of a guy getting drunk and mistreating women is not interesting. It is too much like "real life" going from one episode to another without a real narrative thread holding the book together. Finally it ends, with the character nor the reader having learned anything, or having changed at all. There are so many other talented writers out there, you don't need to waste your time on Bukowski.