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Women

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.

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With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Officeand Factotumis an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 291 pages

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