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Women
Charles Bukowski · 2007 · 304 pages
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.
With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.
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Lucinda Williams
“It’s like reading someone’s diary: It’s funny, somewhat pornographic and honest. He talks about giving a poetry reading and going to the professor’s house afterward, seeing a beautiful woman and telling her she has beautiful legs. Next thing, they’re in the guest bedroom getting it on. When I read it, I thought, OMG. That was at my dad’s house!”↗
