Publication

2007-02-27 - Ecco

Language

English

Word Count

76,000 words, Guess

Page Count

304 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100061177598
  • ISBN-139780061177590
  • Goodreads38500
  • Open LibraryOL7289023M

Description

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.

First Sentence

I was 50 years old and hadn't been to bed with a woman for four years.

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