Author: Charles Bukowski
Narrator: Christian Baskous
Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/13/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humorous Fiction
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.
yeah, i went through my Bukowski phase too, although my phase was short lived. i probably would have given all of the books that i read an extra star if i rated them at the time that i read them. maybe i am not being fair. biggest lesson learned from reading Bukowski - don't date guys who idolize Bu......more
Greta, help, I can’t stop reading Charles Bukowski! And I’m not a nihilist, though Bukowski very well may be. His only allegiances are to women, booze and (betting on) horses, the backdrop of which is decades of working a lot of terrible jobs he makes us shudder and laugh about. Oh, and Bukowski als......more
Gritty, Irrelevant but Extremely Fun. Charles Bukowski is not for everyone, but he has a loyal fan base spreading over decades. He is popular because of his raw unfiltered voice and his ability to capture the struggles, absurdities and occasional joys of everyday life of the down and out. ‘South of N......more