Women: A Novel
by Charles Bukowski
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Author: Charles BukowskiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-01
ISBN: 0061177598
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ecco
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Book Review: Sex, booze, even more booze and plenty more sex....
Summary: 4 Stars
These days if you call yourself a poet, the chances are you're living in a run down bed sit, working in an office to pay your rent, and circulating your unpublished poems around a small circle of like-minded friends, who probably own far too many Morrissey singles. In the early seventies however it seems that being a poet meant two things; firstly, you drank two bottles of Jack Daniels every day and secondly, you spent most of your time enjoying the carnal pleasures of adoring young twenty something girls with long legs and big breasts. According to this book anyway. Ostensibly this is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction in which a 50 something poet, Henry Chinanski, drinks, pukes, and fucks his way through the post-hippie dream of west coast America. Let's be quite frank here: take away the scenes of hard drinking (followed almost inevitably by scenes of hard vomiting), take away the sex scenes, and you're left with not much else. This is the poetry equivalent of Hunter S Thompson's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas... gonzo poetry, if you want to call it that. Chinanski is an irredeemable character who, now that he is famous, wants to catch up on all the hard living he missed out on when he was unknown. It is hard to believe that a grizzled old poet could possibly attract so many nymph like women, but then I never did understand the early seventies. There is no moral to the tale, except maybe that fame is fleeting and you may as well enjoy it while you can. A friend of mine told me today that the author has been dead for a couple of years. On the basis of this book, I'm surprised he lasted that long....
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