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| Original Title: | Women |
| ISBN: | 0061177598 (ISBN13: 9780061177590) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Henry Chinaski |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Charles Bukowski
Paperback | Pages: 291 pages Rating: 3.85 | 60128 Users | 2642 Reviews
Mention Containing Books Women
| Title | : | Women |
| Author | : | Charles Bukowski |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 291 pages |
| Published | : | July 29th 2014 by Ecco (first published 1978) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature |
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Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here 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.Rating Containing Books Women
Ratings: 3.85 From 60128 Users | 2642 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books Women
Women, Charles BukowskiWomen focuses on the many dissatisfaction's Chinaski faced with each new woman he encountered. One of the women featured in the book is a character named Lydia Vance; she is based on Bukowski's one-time girlfriend, the sculptress and sometime poet Linda King. Another central female character in the book is named "Tanya" who is described as a 'tiny girl-child' and Chinaski's pen-pal. They have a weekend tryst. The real-life counterpart to this character wrote a"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." - New YorkerWhat a redundant and glamorous way to describe Bukowski's protagonist/alter ego, Henry Chinaski..."Women" spins around Henry's later sexual life (in his 50's). Now as a minor famous writer, Henry
I think it was more of a personal challenge to actually finish the book. I wanted to throw it away every time I opened it, but I always hoped that maybe, maybe there was a good part coming. Could have spent the money on a decent lunch instead of this.The main character spends so much time describing the sexual encounters and his drunken stupor that you feel no remorse, no sentiment from him, no nothing. Just a child that sees a new toy and damn sure he's going to get it and play with it, then
It was love at first letter with Bukowski. This was months ago. I read the letter he wrote in 86, (posted at Letters of Note in 2012,) and I just knew. I had a thing for that letter, and wanted to devour the words of the man who wrote it.I gulped down Women quickly because that was the type of book it was. Reading Bukowski requires the willingness to loosen up. It is not easy to read this stuff through an ideological, feminist, or moral lens. This man does not bother to brush up his character or
I feel stupid getting into Charles Bukowski so much as a 43 year old guy with kids, a house, and a job. I mean, I read him in my late teens with all my friends and we romanticized his shitty SRO hotel existence. But over the last year I've either read or re-read all of his (non-poetry) books except Pulp, and I can see a depth and craft of which I wasn't aware as a kid. Women, turns out, is my favorite of the catalog.I don't get much voyeuristic pleasure from Women. You know how recently-divorced
This was my first Bukowski and I dont believe it will be the last. Its good to take a peek at his writing when you get too serious in your head and your brain begins to get hot, its good to take a glance at his writing to cool it down and get into the life of an ugly old son of a bitch who is, as he describes himself: Im just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon, a writer who write[s] a lot of crap. But if you ask me Id say he writes interesting
Well, this is one of the instances where I'm not sure how I should start my review. It's not because I don't have anything to say, because trust me, I have sooo many opinions, I just have no idea where my rant should begin. First of all, how the fuck is Bukowski this popular? Please someone explain this to me, because I can't wrap my mind around the fact that people actually love and worship him as an author. And how did he not have like a thousand children and didn't die of liver cirosis or
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