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With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover .... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Charles Bukowski: Add a description of this character.
- Mad Jimmy
- Harry
- Carol
- Vera
- Jack
- Hank
- Mr. Evans
- Tina
- Dan
- Roy
- Frank
- Mary
- Hollis
- Mick
- Harvey
- Ginsberg
- Duke
- Skorski
- Lala
- Griffo
- Creeley
- Henry
- Taylor
- Benny Adimson
- Jeffers
- Watson
- O'brien
- Garson
- Blaine
- Willie
- Arthur
- Lowell
- Belford
- Paul
- Joe
- Dorothy Healey
- Ernie
- Bobby
- Bill
- Mr. Chinaski
- John Thomas
- Madge
- Mcclintock
Quotes edit
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“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you an exceptional man. Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
Table of Contents edit
A .45 To Pay The Rent
Doing Time With Public Enemy No. 1
Scenes From The Big Time
Nut Ward Just East Of Hollywood
Would You Suggest Writing As A Career?
The Great Zen Wedding
Reunion
Cunt And Kant And A Happy Home
Goodbye Watson
Great Poets Die In Steaming Pots Of Shit
My Stay In The Poet's Cottage
The Stupid Christs
Too Sensitive
Rape! Rape!
An Evil Town
Love It Or Leave It A Dollar And Twenty Cents
No Stockings
A Quiet Conversation Piece
Beer And Poets And Talk
I Shot A Man In Reno
A Rain Of Women
Night Streets Of Madness
Purple As An Iris
Eyes Like The Sky
One For Walter Lowenfels
Notes Of A Potential Suicide
Notes On The Pest
A Bad Trip
Animal Crackers In My Soup
A Popular Man
Flower Horse
The Big Pot Game
The Blanket
Authors & Contributors edit
- Charles Bukowski (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: City Lights Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0872861554
Page Count: 238
Publisher: City Lights Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0872861554
Page Count: 238
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- Dewey: 813.54
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