Betting on the Muse: - Poems and Stories

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 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 . Klappentext Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it. Zusammenfassung “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Bukowski
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2002
• EAN: 9781574230017
• ISBN: 978-1-57423-001-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, POETRY: American / General, FICTION: Classics, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: POETS: A TO B, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: General, POETRY: Haiku *