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Women

Women

Summary

YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MAN

Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and uncompromisingly vivid account of life on the edge.

Reviews

  • 1A poem about love and pain. - Los Angeles Times
    2A laureate of American low life. - Time
    3One of those writers whom each new reader discovers with a transgressive thrill - New Yorker
    4The ultimate Bukowski novel, packed with hilarious episodes - Uncut
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About the author

Charles Bukowski

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