With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.
The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton – and depict the darkest parts of human existence. Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement.
In the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art – his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.
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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.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Signed and numbered by Bukowski. Number 59/400. No DJ. Boards have some light scuffing and soiling. ; Signed by Author. Signed By Author. Seller Inventory # 467517
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Bukowski. #80 of 400. light foxing to top edge. (blame los angeles!). Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 3639
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. This edition is published in paper wrappers in an edition of 750 copies, 400 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author, and 126 numbered hardcover copies each with an original painting by Bukowski. This copy is one of the 400 that were numbered and signed. Bound in quarter black cloth with printed paper boards with original acetate wrapper in fine condition. New Year's greeting for friends of the Black Sparrow Press entitled," One fpr the Old Boy" laid in. Seller Inventory # 9027452
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Number 320 of a 400 hardcover copies, signed by Charles Bukowski, with an added small self-portrait. Fine in original acetate wraps, which have a bit of wear at tips, housed in a pretty orange slipcase. A collection of semi-autobiographical short stories including "Long Distance Drunk," "Scream When You Burn" and "A Working Day.". Seller Inventory # 160911004
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0876855982-4
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. This is copy W of 126 (26 lettered and 100 numbered) signed by Charles Bukowski, with an original painting by the poet tipped in after the title page. The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town - a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton - and depict the darkest parts of human existence. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and thematic oeuvre. Octavo. Handbound by Earle Gray in tan paper-covered boards over a decorative cloth spine, with a printed paper spine label. Light soiling along the edges. The original acetate dust wrapper is a trifle rubbed, with a minor crease to the rear flap; otherwise very good. Seller Inventory # 74640
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. #68/100 hand numbered on colophon and signed by Bukowski along with a small ink drawing. Original abstract oil portrait painting signed "Buk" tipped-in following the title page. Tissue guard laid in. Bound in paper-backed boards with paper spine label. Binding is tight; corners and bottom edges show minimal wear. A printing error has resulted in a very small offcut to the top fore-edges of endpapers following colophon (see third photo). Original acetate jacket shows light scuffing and scratching. Additional photos upon request. 8vo. 221pp. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # CHAPbukHWM
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER, DELUXE, SIGNED, LIMITED, FIRST EDITION - #89 OF 100 W/ ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI MINT CONDITION! Bukowski has signed the painting as well as the colophon. Oil painting colors are still vibrant as protected by wax paper. The book itself is in MINT condition including front & back cover, spine, end papers, etc. The original clear, acetate dust wrapper is dinged up a bit on the corners, but still in very good condition. This is an exceptional collectors item for Bukowski fans. The book will ship in a box, carefully wrapped to preserve its mint status. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # gt445