| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780061228445 | | Publisher: Ecco | | Publish Date: 12/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207646562 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 6L x 1.25T | | Pages: 576 |
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| Author Bio| Charles Bukowski | | At the age of 3, Charles Bukowski was brought to the United States from Germany. He was reared in Los Angeles, where he lived for most of his life. Writing in an unflinching, bare-bones style, the tough, hard-drinking, hard-living Bukowski published over 45 books of poetry and prose in his lifetime but remained a literary outsider whose work was available only through small presses. His alter ego in the books, Henry Chinaski, is a tough, hard-drinking, hard-living womanizer, who hangs out with the lowlifes and criminals, with occasional flings in high society. The 1987 film BARFLY, starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, was based on Bukowski's life. |
| | Read A Chapter | the mockingbird the mockingbird had been following the cat
all summer
mocking mocking mocking
teasing and cocksure;
the cat crawled under rockers on porches
tail flashing
and said something angry to the mockingbird
which I didn''t understand. yesterday the cat walked calmly up the driveway
with the mockingbird alive in its mouth,
wings fanned, beautiful wings fanned and flopping,
feathers parted like a woman''s legs,
and the bird was no longer mocking,
it was asking, it was praying
but the cat
striding down through centuries
would not listen. I saw it crawl under a yellow car
with the bird
to bargain it to another place. summer was over. Continues...
Excerpted from The Pleasures of the Damnedby Charles Bukowski Copyright © 2008 by Charles Bukowski. Excerpted by permission.
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Click to read more... the mockingbird the mockingbird had been following the cat
all summer
mocking mocking mocking
teasing and cocksure;
the cat crawled under rockers on porches
tail flashing
and said something angry to the mockingbird
which I didn''t understand. yesterday the cat walked calmly up the driveway
with the mockingbird alive in its mouth,
wings fanned, beautiful wings fanned and flopping,
feathers parted like a woman''s legs,
and the bird was no longer mocking,
it was asking, it was praying
but the cat
striding down through centuries
would not listen. I saw it crawl under a yellow car
with the bird
to bargain it to another place. summer was over. Continues...
Excerpted from The Pleasures of the Damnedby Charles Bukowski Copyright © 2008 by Charles Bukowski. Excerpted by permission.
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