Love is a Dog From Hell

Name: Love is a Dog From Hell
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Bukowski
ISBN: 9780063429536

Author: Charles Bukowski

Narrator: Neil Hellegers

Unabridged: 3 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/22/2024

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry

Synopsis

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.A book 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. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.""there is a loneliness in this world so greatthat you can see it in the slow movement ofthe hands of a clock.""

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 s.penkevich on November 19, 2012

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad. Love him or hate him, Charles Bukowski was a bitter, drunken asshole with a gift for putting onto paper all the ugliness and baseness hiding in the human heart. Before jumping into the discovery and thoughts that ar......more

Goodreads review by Mutasim on July 02, 2020

First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue han......more

Goodreads review by Aritry on January 11, 2013

You either love Bukowski or you don't. There is no in between these two choices. Life as we live it - is depicted in his verses like a nude woman, stripped off all covers and ornaments, bared, with all the beauty and ugliness. There's no pretension, there's no guilt, only bare faces with intense eyes......more