Bukowski, Charles

Post office : a novel by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
97 editions published between 1970 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 1,452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every morning to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable co-workers

Factotum by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
120 editions published between 1975 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 1,275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Synopsis: One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next. Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski

Ham on rye : a novel by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
88 editions published between 1982 and 2012 in 10 languages and held by 1,123 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A down-and-out writer recalls his childhood, schooling, and the years leading up to World War II

Hollywood : a novel by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
88 editions published between 1989 and 2010 in 13 languages and held by 1,081 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry

Women by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
80 editions published between 1978 and 2011 in English and French and held by 1,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tells the story of an ugly old man who has gone unloved for too long, but a change comes over him as he begins more and more relationships with women

Pulp by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
62 editions published between 1900 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 958 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A takeoff on private eye novels by the author of Ham on Rye. In Los Angeles, PI Nick Belane is hired by Lady Death to find out if the man she spotted in a bookstore is the dead French writer, Celine, or an impersonator. The assignment leads Belane to many bars, many fights and many beautiful women

Burning in water, drowning in flame by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
44 editions published between 1972 and 2003 in 4 languages and held by 865 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Come on in! : new poems by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
15 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in English and held by 813 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents 123 previously unpublished poems from one of America's most influential and important poets

Slouching toward Nirvana : new poems by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
9 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994)."--BOOK JACKET

Love is a dog from hell : poems, 1974-1977 by Charles Bukowski ( Book )
33 editions published between 1977 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 766 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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