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Charles Bukowski

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South of No North is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, the so-called "Poet Laureate of Skid Row", originally published in 1973 as South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press. South of No North also is a play that debuted off-Broadway in 2000 based on nine stories …

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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories is a collection of anecdotal short stories by American author Charles Bukowski. The stories are written in both the first and third-person, in Bukowski's trademark semi-autobiographical short prose style. In keeping with his other works, themes include: Los Angeles …

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Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983 by Black Sparrow Press. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.

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First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

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Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. He began writing it in 1991 and encountered several problems during its creation. He fell ill during the spring of 1993, only three-quarters of the way through Pulp.

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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 . . . tender, vicious . . . …

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Hollywood is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences of adapting his novel into the film Barfly. It is narrated in the first person.

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Kvinnor är en roman från 1978 av Charles Bukowski. Precis som i Charles Bukowskis två tidigare romaner, Postverket och Faktotum, är protagonisten i Kvinnor Henry Chinaski, Bukowskis delvis självbiografiska alter-ego. Till skillnad från tidigare romaner fokuserar dock Kvinnor på Bukowskis senare liv, där han fått …

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Faktotum är en roman från 1975 av Charles Bukowski. Den är hans andra roman i serien om alter-egot Henry Chinaski, som är baserade på hans egna upplevelser. Romanen utspelar sig under 40-talet, och skildrar Bukowskis vagabondliv. Romanen blev 2005 filmatiserad, med Matt Dillon i huvudrollen.