Charles Bukowski

Despite Henry Chinaski's lust for women, betting, and booze, he has managed to drag himself out of his hangover every day to work for the United States Postal Service for twelve years where he faces the trials and tribulations associated with being a postal carrier.

"The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol. Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful...

"Charles Bukowski's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence--letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers--the writer shares his insights on the art of creation."--Publisher information.

To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was-- and remains-- the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street-tough poems whose truth has struck a chord with generations of readers.

A takeoff on private eye novels by the author of Ham on Rye. In Los Angeles, PI Nick Belane is hired by Lady Death to find out if the man she spotted in a bookstore is the dead French writer, Celine, or an impersonator. The assignment leads Belane to many bars, many fights and many beautiful women.

O último romance de um dos mais conhecidos autores americanos contemporâneos. «Desde George Orwell que nenhum autor escrevia tão bem sobre quem vive à margem.»The New York Times A Morte visita o escritório do detective privado Nick Belane. Vem disfarçada de Senhora Morte, senhora de ar exótico vestida de vermelho, e procura Céline, escritor francês que se pensava ter morrido há muito tempo. A senhora insiste que viu "o verdadeiro Céline...

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people 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,...

South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.

"These stories originally published by Essex House have become available to both the general reader and reader of unusual literature. City Lights has rescued them from their hidden immortality with this new edition. It's Bukowski again--mad, drunk, wounded, screaming, starving, wondering, feeling it out in his rough, raw style ..." --

The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski. In it, he speaks on topics ranging from horse racing to military elephants, lost love to the fear of death. He writes extensively about writing, and about talking to people about writers such as Camus, Hemingway, and Stein. He writes about war and fatherhood and cats and women. Free from the...