About this title: "I was 50 years old and hadn't been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no woman friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked without yearning and with a sense of futility."
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Description: Very Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good+, clean condition-NO remainder marks or clippings-Tight spine-Bright pages. 293 pages-NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tan covers with artwork on front. 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 ... read more
Edition: Later printing(s)
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1994, 1st Edition, 24th Printing
ISBN-13:9780876853900ISBN:0876853904
Description: Charles Bukowski Cover Art. Very Good+ ------------trade paperback, a Very Good+ copy, light wear, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. read more
Edition: 33rd Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780876853900ISBN:0876853904
Description: Near Very Good. No Jacket. This book has a tan soft cover with blue and black lettering, and a color cover illustration. Mild edgewear to cover; some soil to page edges; inner pages clean. 291 pages; approx. 6"x8". read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780850319729ISBN:0850319722
Description: Fair. Well worn but fully intact and readable with no marks. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780876853900ISBN:0876853904
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VIRGIN BOOKS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780753518144ISBN:0753518147
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 320 pages. Low life writer and alcoholic henry chinaski was born to survive. at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple casanova. this book presents a vivid account of life on the edge. (Paperback) read more
Description: Very Good. B000KVBHF6 Inscribed to previous owner. Light cover wear. Minor corner wear. No marks in text. Black Sparrow Press 1988. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. H. Allen & Company Ltd., London
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780491028547ISBN:0491028547
Description: Good+/Very Good. 0491028547 Used Silver gilt lettering to spine. Light creasing to top edge of dust jacket, crease on spine, tiny tear to tail of spine. Text is clean, bright and tight throughout. read more
Edition: First Australian Edition
Binding: Pictorial Card
Publisher: Wold & Wooley, Sydney
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780909331634ISBN:0909331634
Description: Very Good. 8vo. 291pp. Or brown card covers with col ill on front. Somewhat rubbed, edges spotted, small damp stain at bottom right corner of many pages. Scarce Australian edition of this Bukowski volume. Only 750 copies were printed according to Krumhansl (#63b). Issued simultaneously with US trade edition. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
"dude, when I read this it was a bad time in my life. I was going out with a guy that thought way too much LIKE bukowski, and probably cheated on me as much as bukowski did on his ladies too. We were together almost 3 years, and I thought he was the love of my life, but he treated me like an old piece of macaroni despite the fact that I was in the prime of my "pretty factor" in life. Plus, I am no idiot, I am smart, I have always been smart, I was just being stupidly in love. So let's just say, at the time that I read this, I TOOK IT PERSONALLY. My friends say I should try again, and I probably will. But for now, sorry yo, it left a BAD taste in my mouth, and as a girl I was totally offended.
I think I am so laid back these days I probably will love it. This review is just going on what I remember from 10 years back."
"recently I discovered this bukowski guy everyone is so excited about. I think he's very honest. this is a very autobiographical work. he writes his own experiences, he's very plain spoken, intelligent, not intellectual, funny as hell. is he a pig? well, maybe, but he's a funny pig who writes a good novel and good poetry. so I read him. I love his poetry and have other books by him I will be digging into. I think I've learned a lot about some men from reading this book, and about what motivates them to do things women might find deplorable on the surface. looking deeper it's easy to see despair, desperation, searching, hoping against a tide of hopelessness and a sense of careening out of control like an addict in his approach to cultivating relationships with women."
"Although there are so many scenes in this book that are so wrong, you have to laugh at how overblown the caricature Bukowski creates is. Somehow his character manages to tell the same story in about 30 different ways in this book, and somehow it doesn't lose the reader's interest (okay, maybe I started to get a little bored toward the end). Perhaps it really tells more about Bukowski's audience than about Bukowski that we are so fascinated by his writing. The cycle goes: drink excessively, be an offensive anti-social pig, have rough sex with some new woman, break it off, wallow, repeat.
Well-written, succinct, quick to read, laugh-out-loud funny at moments. It's not worth examining much further, and Bukowski probably wouldn't want you to anyway, so why bother?"
"The leading crazy lady's name is Lydia. I like that part. Charles Bukowski has a way of betraying you, making you laugh in spite of yourself, disgusting you and then melting your heart with one tender and insightful paragraph you do not expect at a moment that doesn't even seem appropriate in context to what he's saying. It is impossible to love Bukowski and impossible not to love him. This book is just a delight, if you can read it. You know, really read it. He is soft as mush at his core."
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