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On Cats by Charles Bukowski is a heartfelt exploration into the author's connection with felines. It includes personal anecdotes, reflections, and poems, showcasing Bukowski's complex relationship with these independent creatures. This work highlights the companionship and inspiration that cats provided him throughout his life, capturing both the humour and poignancy of their shared existence.
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You might enjoy this collection if you're intrigued by the complex relationship between humans and their feline companions, told through raw and reflective prose. This book may appeal to you if you appreciate Bukowski's distinctive style, exploring life, love, and the human condition with a focus on the mysterious allure and quirky nature of cats.

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On Cats

The perfect gift book for the literary cat lover - musings on the magical mystique of our feline friends, from American icon Charles Bukowski.

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'A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go'.

For Charles Bukowski, there was something majestic and elemental about cats. He considered them to be sentient beings, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our being. Cats see into us; they are on to something.

An illuminating portrait of one very special writer and a lifelong relationship with the animals he considered his most profound teachers, On Cats brings together Bukowski's reflections on the ruthless, resilient, indigent, and endearing creatures he so admired.

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On Cats by Charles Bukowski is praised as being a reflective and raw tribute to feline companionship, showcasing Bukowski's tender yet gritty narrative style. Critics often highlight his dual ability to shock and move readers in quick succession, a signature of his writing that melds the stark realities of urban life with moments of unexpected beauty and affection towards his feline co-habitants.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782117278

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Contributors:

  • Edited by Abel Debritto

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 92g

Pages: 128

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 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.

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