Betting on the Muse
By (Author) Charles Bukowski
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ECCO Press
9th February 2018
6th June 1996
United States
General
Fiction
Literary essays
Poetry by individual poets
818.54
Paperback
416
Width 149mm, Height 227mm, Spine 26mm
433g
Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.
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, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there 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).