Factotum tie-in- - Couverture souple

Bukowski, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006113127X ISBN 13 : 9780061131271

Editeur : Ecco, 2006

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Not since George Orwell has the condition of being down-and-out been so well recorded' New York Times

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour.

Factotum follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his tough upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years.

'Funny and sharp, observant, clever with details and honest' Times Literary Supplement

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 006113127X
• ISBN 13: 9780061131271
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208