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Essential Bukowski - Poetry by Charles Bukowski
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture. Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary l ...Show more
Essential Bukowski Poetry by Charles Bukowski; Abel Debritto (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rollin ...Show more
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into ...Show more
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski; Howard Sounes (Introduction by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
'What will you do?' 'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.' 'What are you going to call it?' 'Hollywood.' Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known star ...Show more
On Cats by Charles Bukowski
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A cat is only Itself,' Bukowski wrote. 'Representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go' A raw and tenderly funny look at the relationship between cats and humans from one of the world's most treasured and transgressive writers 'The cat is the beautiful devil' For Charles Bukowski there w ...Show more
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol.Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," ...Show more
On Love by Charles Bukowski
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him ...There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be ...Show more
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
$22.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and rumina ...Show more
PORTIONS FROM A WINE-STAINED NOTEBOOK: UNCOLLECTED STORIES AND ESSAYS, 1944-1990 by BUKOWSKI CHARLES
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. "Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook "is a substantial selection of these wide-ranging works ...Show more
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature. The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction b ...Show more
Storm for the Living and the Dead Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Charles Bukowski
$55.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems ...Show more