Dimensions
162 x 241 x 29mm
Charles Bukowski (Hank to his friends) rarely wrote about anywhere else but the city in which he spent much of his life: Los Angeles. His beat was the seedy underside, the racetracks and strip joints, the panhandlers and hustlers, the drunks and hookers rather than the glamour of Hollywood; the inspiration for his writing was a series of dead-end jobs in warehouses and offices and factories. It was in the evenings that he would put on a classical record, open a beer and begin to type . . .
Brought up by a violent father, Bukowski suffered childhood beatings before developing horrific acne and withdrawing into a moody adolescence. Much of his young life epitomised the style of the Beat generation - riding Greyhound buses, bumming around and drinking himself into a stupor; he was also a prolific writer. His first story was published when he was 24; his first poetry when he was 35.
