Description: Women by Charles Bukowski At the age of 50, Chinaski is living the life of a rock star, waking up with 300 hangovers a year and maintaining a sex life that would cripple even Casanova himself. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterLow-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 Charles Bukowskis trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, Women, the 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum, is an uncompromising account of life on the edge. Back Cover How-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 Bukowskis trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge. Author Biography Charles Bukowski is one of Americas best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love. Details ISBN0061177598 Short Title WOMEN Language English ISBN-10 0061177598 ISBN-13 9780061177590 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 813.54 Residence US Birth 1920 Death 1994 Subtitle A Novel DOI 10.1604/9780061177590 UK Release Date 2014-07-29 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2014-07-29 NZ Release Date 2014-07-29 Pages 304 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint HarperCollins Ecco Audience General Imprint US Ecco Publisher US HarperCollins Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-07-29 US Release Date 2014-07-29 Author Charles Bukowski We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:12615381;
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