C. Bukowski (Book order)

C. Bukowski Book order

This author delves into the raw realities of ordinary American lives, heavily influenced by the urban landscape of Los Angeles. His work is characterized by a focus on themes of writing, alcohol, and complex relationships, all rendered in a direct and unvarnished style. Through his prose and poetry, he captures the struggles and experiences of the working class and societal outsiders with unflinching honesty. His distinctive voice offers a powerful, often gritty, exploration of the human condition.

Factotum

205 pages
8 hours of reading

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Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless dunk, drifts around America form one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. Factotum follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years.