Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. «Factotum» follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling «Post Office», his highly autobiographical first novel.…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, «Post Office» is a landmark in American literature. The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author, Niall Griffiths — a writer who was working in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of anecdotal short stories demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and his mastery of visceral language and the depiction of seamy underworlds. Focusing on themes that recur throughout his work, from Los Angeles and bar culture to alcoholism, gambling,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column «Notes of A Dirty Old Man» for the underground newspaper «Open City». Perennially drunk, broke and in search of a woman, Bukowski takes on the guise of a wise fool as he ventures through America's seedy lowlife. Peopled by Kerouac, Burroughs and other much less salubrious characters, his exploits provoke humour and despair, whilst highlighting the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The fifth and final collection of poems from one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose — and many would claim its most influential and imitated poet. the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Inspired by DH Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose. This is the fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from one of the country's most influential and most imitated poets. another comeback climbing back up out of the ooze, out of the thick black tar, rising up again, a modern Lazarus. you're amazed at your good fortune. somehow you've had more than your…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 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 discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, «Ham on Rye»…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: A new book of unpublished poems from one of America's best-known contemporary writers and its most influential and imitated poet. Although he published over 45 volumes of poetry during his lifetime, Charles Bukowski and his publisher put aside hundreds of his best poems to be published after his death. Now available for the first time in the UK, this new book represents the fourth in a series of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.