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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Penned By Howard Sounes
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Penned By Howard Sounes
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A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly) based on his life. Drawing on new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, family, and many lovers; unprecedented access to his private letters and unpublished writing; and commentary from Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, and Harry Dean Stanton, Howard Sounes has uncovered the extraordinary true story of the Dirty Old Man of American literature. Illustrated with drawings by Bukowski and over sixty photographs, Charles Bukowski is a must for Bukowski devotees and new readers alike. As the Los Angeles Times noted, "Bukowski is one of those writers people remember more for the legend than for the work....but, as Howard Sounes shows in this exhaustively researched biography, it wasn't the whole story."

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Length 309 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Grove Press
Released 1998
Identifier (ISBN) 50461
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Howard Sounes is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Howard Sounes can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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