Factotum

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Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 208 pages

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.

Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.

 

Contents

Section 1
12
Section 2
14
Section 3
20
Section 4
23
Section 5
26
Section 6
32
Section 7
33
Section 8
41
Section 23
109
Section 24
118
Section 25
122
Section 26
137
Section 27
140
Section 28
150
Section 29
154
Section 30
157

Section 9
45
Section 10
52
Section 11
57
Section 12
78
Section 13
83
Section 14
86
Section 15
87
Section 16
88
Section 17
90
Section 18
95
Section 19
101
Section 20
106
Section 21
107
Section 22
108
Section 31
159
Section 32
161
Section 33
162
Section 34
166
Section 35
172
Section 36
176
Section 37
181
Section 38
185
Section 39
186
Section 40
191
Section 41
200
Section 42
206
Copyright

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About the author (2009)

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.Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

Bibliographic information

TitleFactotum
AuthorCharles Bukowski
PublisherHarper Collins, 2009
ISBN0061842419, 9780061842412
Length208 pages
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Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Urban & Street Lit
Fiction / World Literature / American / 20th Century
Fiction / World Literature / American / 21st Century
Poetry / American / General
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