Summary
NEW LOOK FOR THE CLASSIC NOVEL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEELI CHERKOVSKI
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour.
Factotum follows Charles Bukowski’s bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753518151 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753518155 |
| Author: | Charles Bukowski |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Virgin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 11mm |
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1Not since George Orwell has the condition of being down-and-out been so well recorded. - New York Times2Funny and sharp, observant, clever with details and honest. - Times Literary Supplement3A side-splitting chronicle … dirty realism from the godfather of lowlife literature - Uncut4Its genius is simple and it shines a wee candle on the life of an aspiring poet and home-relief applicant - Bizarre
* - *About The Author
Charles Bukowski
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.
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