Hot Water Music

Name: Hot Water Music
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Bukowski
ISBN: 9780062302977

Author: Charles Bukowski

Narrator: Christian Baskous

Unabridged: 5 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/13/2013

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton – and depict the darkest parts of human existence. Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement. In the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art – his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.

About Charles Bukowski

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

I had been reading Chekhov’s major plays—now doesn't that sound elegant and literary?—and thought I needed something inelegant and unliterary to follow it up, and found something on audiobooks I hadn’t read before, from Charles Bukowski, a collection of stories, and it is obvious at a glance that th......more

Goodreads review by Eliasdgian

Ο πατέρας του Βρόμικου Ρεαλισμού (Dark Realism) επινοεί και καταγράφει (εξαρτάται, πάντοτε, από το σε ποιο βαθμό το σύνολο του έργου του θεωρείται αυτοβιογραφικό ή όχι) ολιγοσέλιδα ανοσιουργήματα: βρόμικες ιστορίες που εκτυλίσσονται στις εξίσου βρόμικες γειτονιές της Πόλης των (Εκπεσόντων) Αγγέλων,......more

Goodreads review by صان

باید بگم که حرف نداشت.......more

Goodreads review by Daniel C

I am quite the fan of Bukowski. I enjoyed Factotum, Pulp, and Post Office in particular, and I think Ham On Rye is a work of art. Perhaps the only real catch to Bukowski's work is that he is something of a one trick pony. Don't get me wrong, though. It's still a good trick. Where Bukowski fails in hi......more