Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 - Hardcover

Bukowski, Charles

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9780876859155: Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970

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ISBN 10: 0876859155 ISBN 13: 9780876859155

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press,U.S., 1993

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In letters from the 1960s, the poet recounts his efforts to succeed as a writer, his inability to quit his day job, and his battles with manic depression and other illnesses

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This first volume of letters shows America's most celebrated literary "outsider" to be a consummate master of the epistolary form. As a letter writer, Bukowski is as lyrical and immediate as in his poetry, as hard-edged and truthful as in his "fictional" prose.

About the Author:

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 more than 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.

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