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Love Is a Dog from Hell

by Charles Bukowski · 1977

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Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.

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1970s1970sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 312 pages
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