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Beschreibung
'Fear makes me a writer fear and a lack of confidence'

Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers and hustlers the drunks and the hookers his beat the racetracks and strip joints and his inspiration a series of dead-end jobs in warehouses offices and factories. It was in the evenings that he would put on a classical record open a beer and begin to type...

Brought up by a violent father Bukowski suffered childhood beatings before developing horrific acne and withdrawing into a moody adolescence. Much of his young life epitomised the style of the Beat generation - riding Greyhound buses bumming around and drinking himself into a stupor. During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office Factotum Women and Pulp. His novels sold millions of copies worldwide in dozens of languages.

In this definitive biography Barry Miles celebrated author of Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats turns his attention to the exploits of this hard-drinking belligerent wild man of literature.
'Fear makes me a writer fear and a lack of confidence'

Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers and hustlers the drunks and the hookers his beat the racetracks and strip joints and his inspiration a series of dead-end jobs in warehouses offices and factories. It was in the evenings that he would put on a classical record open a beer and begin to type...

Brought up by a violent father Bukowski suffered childhood beatings before developing horrific acne and withdrawing into a moody adolescence. Much of his young life epitomised the style of the Beat generation - riding Greyhound buses bumming around and drinking himself into a stupor. During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office Factotum Women and Pulp. His novels sold millions of copies worldwide in dozens of languages.

In this definitive biography Barry Miles celebrated author of Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats turns his attention to the exploits of this hard-drinking belligerent wild man of literature.
Über den Autor
Barry Miles is the critically acclaimed author of the biographies of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs (all published by Virgin) and of The Beat Hotel. He also wrote Hippie and the authorised biography of Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780753518182
ISBN-10: 075351818X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Miles, Barry
Hersteller: Virgin Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Barry Miles
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.2009
Gewicht: 0,422 kg
Artikel-ID: 134462087