On Drinking, Charles Bukowski
On Drinking, Charles Bukowski
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On Drinking

Author: Charles Bukowski

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/12/2019

Synopsis

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol.Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed “dirty old man,” Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and inspired.In On Drinking, Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writer’s most profound, funny, and memorable work on his ups and downs with the hard stuff—a topic that allowed Bukowski to explore some of life’s most pressing questions. Through drink, Bukowski is able to be alone, to be with people, to be a poet, a lover, and a friend—though often at great cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled “Drinking,”: “for me/it was or/is/a manner of/dying/with boots on/and gun/smoking and a/symphony music background.”On Drinking is a powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers.

About Charles Bukowski

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by persephone ☾

i am a woman of many flaws but my biggest flaw will forever be that i - to my dismay - enjoyed this book very much and that i will probably read more Bukowski. you can throw tomatoes at me, i deserve it 😔......more

Goodreads review by Dave

“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.” You wouldn't think this would be a four star book, a posthumously collected series of anecdotes and poems focused on one of Buk's two central loves, drinking and writing, though the two went hand in h......more

Goodreads review by Peycho

Drinking for me it was or is a manner of dying with boots on and gun smoking and a symphony music background. drinking alone, I mean. that’s the only drinking— drinking alone being alone fitting the parts feeling the parts. of course drinking can kill you a cold shower can or a painting by Gaugin or an old dog on a hot day. I wo......more

Goodreads review by Jovi

„desigur băutul te poate ucide o poate face și-un duș rece sau un tabloul de Gauguin sau un câine bătrân într-o zi caniculară.” Așadar, despre băut, băutură și bețivi numai de bine, în această antologie tipic bukowskiană, care marșează pe unul dintre subiectele sale preferate (alături de femei și de scriitori......more

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