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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.
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"Not since George Orwell has the condition of being down-and-out been so well recorded." (New York Times)
"Funny and sharp, observant, clever with details and honest." (Times Literary Supplement)
"A side-splitting chronicle ... dirty realism from the godfather of lowlife literature" (Uncut)
"Its genius is simple and it shines a wee candle on the life of an aspiring poet and home-relief applicant" (Bizarre)
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"Funny and sharp, observant, clever with details and honest." (Times Literary Supplement)
"A side-splitting chronicle ... dirty realism from the godfather of lowlife literature" (Uncut)
"Its genius is simple and it shines a wee candle on the life of an aspiring poet and home-relief applicant" (Bizarre)
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- PublisherEcco Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 006113127X
- ISBN 13 9780061131271
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- Number of pages208
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