Screams from the Balcony

Screams from the Balcony PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061872989
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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Screams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.

Screams from the Balcony

Screams from the Balcony PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061872989
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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Book Description
Screams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.

Reach for the Sun Vol. 3

Reach for the Sun Vol. 3 PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061876100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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Book Description
Literary Criticism. Reach for the Sun is the third volume of Bukowski's letters from Black Sparrow Press, selected by Seamus Cooney.

You Get So Alone at Times

You Get So Alone at Times PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061873047
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Book Description
Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Report on Myself

Report on Myself PDF Author: Grégoire Bouillier
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618968619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Distinguished by the same charm and playful prose that helped make The Mystery Guest such a cult favorite with readers and reviewers, Report on Myself is the memoir that won Grégoire Bouillier the French Prix de Flore and universal acclaim. Here, Bouillier tells the whole crazy story of his life, from his conception in wartime Algeria to his gritty Parisian boyhood at the mercy of his working-class bohemian parents. With trademark pithy vignettes, he illuminates his life through the stories of his four loves, beginning at age nine with the bourgeois Marie-Blanche, younger sister of his best friend, and ending with the relationship that nearly destroyed him, the aftermath of which he chronicled to such great effect in The Mystery Guest. Shot through with indelible images, bad puns, and Bouillier's gift for drawing meaning from the seemingly innocuous coincidences of daily life, Report on Myself turns on a literary revelation (in this case, The Odyssey) that helps Grégoire decode the patterns laid out by his life, while teaching us a thing or two about love and literature along the way.

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
A collection of poems by contemporary American writer Charles Bukowski.

The Pleasures of the Damned

The Pleasures of the Damned PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847678874
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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Book Description
The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death. Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's long-time editor and the publisher of the legendary Black Sparrow Press, this stands as what Martin calls 'the best of the best of Bukowski'.

sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way

sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 006197997X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America. Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski’s life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more. Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative – published posthumously, it’s completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski’s lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty. We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.

The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain

The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060577010
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Book Description
Presents 143 new poems from one of America's greatest modern writers and most influential poets.

Tales of Ordinary Madness

Tales of Ordinary Madness PDF Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 0872866386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Book Description
Exceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again. This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. That book was later split into two volumes and republished: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and, this book, Tales of Ordinary Madness. With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time, a madman, a recluse, a lover; tender, vicious; never the same. "Bukowski … a professional disturber of the peace … laureate of Los Angeles netherworld [writes with] crazy romantic insistence that losers are less phony than winners, and with an angry compassion for the lost."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek "Bukowski’s works are extraordinarily vivid and often bitterly funny observations of people living on the very edge of oblivion. His poetry, in all its glorious simplicity, was accessible the way poetry seldom is a testament to his genius."—Nick Burton, PIF Magazine

Queen of the Conquered

Queen of the Conquered PDF Author: Kacen Callender
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316454915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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An ambitious and unflinching tale of colonialism, conquest, and revenge, Queen of the Conquered begins a powerful fantasy series set in a Caribbean-inspired world. *Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Books Of All Time * World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, winner On the islands of Hans Lollik, Sigourney Rose was the only survivor when her family was massacred by the colonizers. When the childless king of the islands declares he will choose his successor from amongst eligible noble families, Sigourney is ready to exact her revenge. But someone is killing off the ruling families to clear a path to the throne. And as the bodies pile up and all eyes regard her with suspicion, Sigourney must find allies among her prey and the murderer among her peers... lest she become the next victim. Praise for Queen of the Conquered: "A storm of a novel as epic as Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo." —Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Beasts Made of Night "The book's absorbing setting, captivating lead, and relevant themes of race and class complement each other with alternating delicacy and savagery."—NPR Books "Callender's first adult novel draws race relations, conquest, magic, and politics into an imaginative, layered story that will keep readers twisting until the end." —Library Journal Islands of Blood and Storm Queen of the Conquered King of the Rising