Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader
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The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience.
Bukowski charts his youth through a bleak Depression-era Los Angeles, balancing the raw savagery of an abusive household against the stubborn endurance of an outcast.
The volume traces his itinerant years through skid row roominghouses and grueling post office shifts.
Arranged chronologically from twenty-five years of Black Sparrow Press publications, this anthology brings together celebrated fiction and raw verse. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.
- Raw Honesty: Chronicles Bukowski’s agonizing adolescence battling severe acne vulgaris, undergoing electric needle treatments and heavy bandaging at the Los Angeles County charity hospital.
- Against the Odds: Details grueling years spent as a substitute carrier and clerk at Oakford Station, facing down aggressive dogs, impossible sorting schedules, and abusive supervisors.
- American Literature: Traces the devastating loss of Jane, his first true love, documenting her fatal struggle with alcoholism and the haunting elegies that defined his poetic breakthrough.
- Classic Literature: Exposes the absurdities of late-career fame in Hollywood, from writing the Barfly screenplay to clashing with eccentric directors and volatile producers.
- Also by This Author: Essential Bukowski, On Cats and On Writing.
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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.
