Love is a Dog from Hell

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. "there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock."

Product details

• Authors: Charles Bukowski
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2002
• EAN: 9780876853627
• ISBN: 978-0-87685-362-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 225 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Erotic Romance, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, United States of America, USA, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Contains explicit or offensive material or content, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: POETS: A TO B, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Haiku *, FICTION: Romance / Erotic, Poetry / Poets: A to B