Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and uncompromisingly vivid account of life on the edge.

 

Details

ISBN: 9780753518144
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 320
Edition: Revised edition
Publication Date: 8 Jan 2009
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H) x 12.9(L) x 2(W)
Weight (gm): 224

 

Reviews

1A poem about love and pain. - Los Angeles Times
2A laureate of American low life. - Time
3One of those writers whom each new reader discovers with a transgressive thrill - New Yorker
4The ultimate Bukowski novel, packed with hilarious episodes - Uncut

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Author Biography

During his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971) and Factotum (1975). He is one of America's most distinctive writers and a voice for both the outsider and low life Americana.