Hot Water Music
by Charles Bukowski
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Author: Charles BukowskiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1983-10
ISBN: 0876855966
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
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- ISBN13: 9780876855966
- Condition: New
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Book Review: ". . . trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."
Summary: 4 Stars
The stories in Hot Water Music are the equivalent of walking through the worst parts of town at the best times, when both ends of the social spectrum empty--the gutters and nice houses--and the scumbags within start to move from bar to bar with a bad attitude, filling their guts with handout bar pretzels and stale popcorn. Bukowski follows these people around for awhile and ditches them before they become old news. These thirty-six stories rarely exceed six-pages, and they don't need to. We get a sense of the vulgarity that rubs its belly near the feet of us all.
This is standard Bukowski fare: women, booze, coming to grips with popularity after a life of being shunned and enjoying it. At their worst, these stories are uneventfully bleak ("Turkeyneck Morning") or just sort of uneventful ("In And Out And Over"). At their best, these are stories of perverts and weirdos settling for less than what everyone else expects them to. The characters in these stories are drunks, rapists, sexual hounds with pathetic justifications for drinking whatever flows down the curb. Though this collection gets a bit tedious towards the end, the great writing Bukowski cultivated with the previous year's Ham On Rye sees him taking his minimalistic approach to life and language and turning it into a series of blinks past the windows where the shady people dwell.
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