Charles Bukowski

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses), he is critically recognized as one of America's greatest living realist writers. Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to America at the age of two. Eighteen or twenty books of prose and poetry, Bukowski, after publishing prose in Story and Portfolio, stopped writing for ten years. He arrived in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital, hemorrhaging as a climax to a ten year drinking bout. Some say he didn't die. After leaving the hospital he got a typewriter and began writing again--this time, poetry. He later returned to prose and gained some fame with his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man. After 14 years in the Post Office he resigned at age 50, he says, to keep from going insane. He now claims to be unemployable and eats typewriter ribbons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 1983
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780872861565
• ISBN-10: 0872861562
• Artikelnr.: 21067478

Autorenporträt

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to Los Angeles at age three. Using the city as a backdrop for his work, Bukowski wrote prolifically, publishing over fifty volumes of poetry and prose. He died in San Pedro, California on March 9, 1994. His books are widely translated and posthumous volumes continue to appear.

? Michael Montfort

Rezensionen

Not since George Orwell has the condition of being down-and-out been so well recorded New York Times