Description: 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.
Brief description:
Charles Bukowski is one of America's 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.
Review Quotes:
"Bukowski is the laureate of the Los Angeles underground, an eccentric who sees the world with a clarity of vision possessed only by artists and madmen." - Los Angeles Times
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles." - Joyce Carol Oates
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels." - Leonard Cohen
"The poet laureate of sour alleys and dark bars, of racetracks and long shots." - Washington Post
"There is real poignancy in the people encountered in Bukowski's work." - New York Times Book Review