Charles Bukowski
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English
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These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses), he is critically recognized as one of America's greatest realist writers.
3) On love
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216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us"--Amazon.com.
5) Hollywood
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239 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
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English
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Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.
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English
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The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb, deflating pretensions and tearing down idols armed with only a typewriter and a bottle of beer. Beginning with the title piece-a...
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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,...
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Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. Absence of the Hero contains much of his earliest fiction, unseen in decades, as well as a number of previously unpublished stories and essays. The classic Bukowskian obsessions are...
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Portuguese
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Aqui o leitor tem a melhor e mais abrangente antologia poética de Bukowski, cobrindo quase quarenta anos. O conteúdo foi selecionado pelo biógrafo e estudioso Abel Debritto entre livros, composições publicadas somente em periódicos e versos inéditos. Os 95 poemas ora reunidos vão da ferocidade quase surrealista dos primeiros anos, passando pela fase underground do Velho Safado (pós-anos 1970) e culminando, enfim, na produção mais filosófica...
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English
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A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book. "People come to my door--too many of them really--and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from...
18) Ham on rye
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283 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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A down-and-out writer recalls his childhood, schooling, and the years leading up to World War II.
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2 audio discs (2 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1993, the year before his death, this counterculture icon recorded and published selections from his classic Run with the hunted. Now, additional material from that recording session is included on this special, expanded edition, including candid conversations between Bukowski, his wife and his producer.