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Factotum

A Novel
By Charles Bukowski
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Factotum traces the aimless journey of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski, who drifts through World War II-era America taking on odd jobs while battling alcoholism. Deferred from military service, Chinaski's life is a raw and vivid portrayal of low-life urbanity, filled with encounters in sordid rooms, drunken brawls, and fleeting relationships as he searches for meaning amid the chaos.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel will appeal to readers interested in gritty, autobiographical fiction and fans of Charles Bukowski's uncompromising literary style. It suits those drawn to stories exploring the darker, slower pace of life and urban struggles in mid-20th-century America.

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An aspiring writer who has become an outcast, loner, and hopeless drunk drifts around America, moving from job-to-job to support his favorite pastimes--women, drinking, and gambling.

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Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate autobiographical novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles." — Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels." — Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780876852637

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 February 1976

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Black Sparrow Press,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 250

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About the Author

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.

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