Charles Bukowski - Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life - Sounes, Howard 0.80kg

A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life - including Post Office, Factotum, and Women - and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly) based on his life. Drawing on new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, family, and many lovers; unprecedented access to his private letters and unpublished writing; and commentary from Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, and Harry Dean Stanton, Howard Sounes has uncovered the extraordinary true story of the Dirty Old Man of American literature.

Softcover. English. Canongate. 2010. ISBN: 9781847675606. 311 pp. Good condition.Book No: 25036352