Showing results for "Charles Bukowski" in Genre Fiction

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...

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent...

This collection of Buk's grimmest diaries gives an insight into the noir and brutal Los Angeles that Bukowski observed and lived so well. He was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover...tender, vicious...never the same. These are exceptional stories that came pounding out of his violent and depraved life - horrible and holy. You cannot listen to them and come away the same again.

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged...

A workhouse orphan, Oliver experiences the terror and brutality of the criminal underworld. His companions, a thief, a whore, a pickpocket, and a fence, are destined for gruesome ends, but Oliver emerges unscathed from the darkness of the underworld.

Bukowski's mad immortal origins, surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of audiences who've recognized Bukowski as one of America's greatest realist writers and poets. Audible Studios narrator and OBIE winner Will Patton ( Remember the Titans, The Good Wife, Armageddon) gives a tour de force performance of Bukowski's greatest work in his prime.

Born from Bukowski's columns, the LA underground press of the 1960s, Bukowski defined his early alter ego, Hank Chinaski, as a self-described dirty old man who eyes his defeatist attitude about himself with his clarity to see humor and holiness in others. Addictive and instructive listening, Bukowski delivers the humanity and intelligence of all the unseen. Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - Notes features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, and his tortured, violent relationships.

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always...

South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society...

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles...

Min oskuld och Pearl Harbor är en hudlös, ärlig skildring av den fattiga, vita underklassmiljön under den ekonomiska depressionen i 1930-talets Los Angeles. Den unge Henry Chinaski kämpar med tillvaron i ett barndomshem präglat av en passiv mor och en våldsam far, som låter sin frustration gå ut över sonen i form av systematisk aga.

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name. Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He...

På den amerikanske vestkyst i Los Angeles arbejder Henry Chinaski for postvæsnet. Vi følger ham i en hverdag præget af faste rutiner, hvor dagen begynder tidligt med at dele breve ud, mens fritiden fordrives med hestevæddeløb, druk til langt ud på natten og talrige og sporadiske romancer med mange forskellige kvinder, før det igen bliver morgen, og hele rumlen starter forfra.

I cavalli, la boxe, le donne, le sbornie colossali e le interminabili giornate al bar sullo sfondo di un’America povera ed emarginata. Nel suo libro più celebre, Charles Bukowski rappresenta con forza e crudezza tutto il suo universo narrativo, senza mai perdere la capacità di sorridere davanti alla desolazione della vita.

Ce recueil de nouvelles relate les années d'errance de Bukowski - ou de ses avatars - à travers l'Amérique des marginaux. À la faveur d'anecdotes sulfureuses, de bars louches en chambres d'hôtels minables, il décrit sans concession l'existence d'êtres surnageant dans l'alcool et la pauvreté, non sans offrir à son lecteur un regard visionnaire empreint d'une réelle poésie. Dans cet univers cru, sans cérémonie sociale, l'amour, l'affection et l'amitié se fraient pourtant un chemin.

Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - More features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, his tortured, violent relationships with women, and his lurid escapades on the poetry reading circuit. Highlighting his versatility, the book ranges from thinly-veiled autobiography to purely fictional tales of dysfunctional suburbanites, disgraced politicians, and down-and-out sports promoters - climaxing with a long, hilarious adventure among French filmmakers.

Penguin Classics presents Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Steven Pacey. 'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous...