as the first book of charles bukowski's that i ever read, "Women" holds a special place in my heart.it is an insane story of henry chinaski and his misunderstandings and communications with women. autobiographical to an extent, this book, and all of bukowski's, arespecial because they are so graphically and emotionally honest. no one elsepaints such candid portraits of the human psyche in its most degenerate andpolitically incorrect situations.no other author can put so muchvulgarity into a work and make it sound as natural as bukowski does. everything and every word in his novels have a place and a meaning, makinghis writing style so refreshingly satisfying, that you can't help but tolive vicariously through his beautiful insanity."women"introduced me to this great american poet/novelist, and it is my beliefthat this book definitely makes for a proper introduction to his works.Product Description
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.
About the Author
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).
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