The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way - The Writing Life

Informationen zum Autor 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 three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp . Klappentext 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. At the forefront of American counter-culture, his Beat Generation writing is widely celebrated. He was born in Germany in 1920 to an American soldier father and a German mother and was brought to the United States at the age of three. He grew up in Los Angeles and lived there for the majority of his life. During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books, including novels such as Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye. He died in 1994 shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. Zusammenfassung A previously unpublished collection of work on the art of writing - by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers

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• Authors: Charles Bukowski
• Assisted by: David Stephen Calonne (Introduction)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.2018
• EAN: 9781786894434
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-443-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Ham on Rye; Post Office; Factotum; Beat; Leonard Cohen