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

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11 editions · 3 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2009
    Virgin Books · 304 pages · 9780753518144
  • Ebook · English · 2007
    HarperCollins · 9780061542459
  • Other · English · 2007
    Ecco · 304 pages · 9780061177590
  • Other · English · 2003
    Virgin · 290 pages · 9780863697319
  • Other · English · 1981
    W.H. Allen · 290 pages · 9780491028547
  • Other · English · 1981
    W.H. Allen · 304 pages · 9780352309679
FictionMan-woman relationshipsMan-woman relationships in fictionAlcoholics in fictionAlcoholicsHumor (Fiction)Fiction, womenUnited states, fiction