Beerspit Night and Cursing : the Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967

Charles Bukowski; Sheri Martinelli

ISBN 10: 1574231502 / ISBN 13: 9781574231502

Published by Ecco, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beerspit Night and Cursing : the Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967
• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574231502
• ISBN 13: 9781574231502
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski—America's "Ultimate Outsider"

• Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation
• Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted
• Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize.

Sheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.

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 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.