| Factotum Contributor(s): Bukowski, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 006113127X ISBN-13: 9780061131271 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: Bukowski tells the powerful story of a man who wanders the streets, moving from job-to-job to support his favorite pastimes--women, drinking, gambling, and writing. Soon to be coming to the big screen. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Media Tie-in - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.39 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bukowski, Charles: - 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 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love. |