Women
(Paperback, Revised edition)
Publishing Details
Women
By (Author) Charles Bukowski
Ebury Publishing
Virgin Books
2nd March 2009
8th January 2009
Revised edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
217g
Description
The bestselling classic novel repackaged with an introduction by Barry Miles, author of the definitive Bukowski biography YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MAN Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, 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. Women is a riotous and uncompromisingly vivid account of life on the edge.
Reviews
1A poem about love and pain. - Los Angeles Times
2A laureate of American low life. - Time
3One of those writers whom each new reader discovers with a transgressive thrill - New Yorker
4The ultimate Bukowski novel, packed with hilarious episodes - Uncut
Author Bio
During his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971) and Factotum (1975). He is one of America's most distinctive writers and a voice for both the outsider and low life Americana.
