Author:Charles Bukowski
YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MAN
Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and uncompromisingly vivid account of life on the edge.
1A poem about love and pain. - Los Angeles Times
2A laureate of American low life. - Time
3One of those writers whom each new reader discovers with a transgressive thrill - New Yorker
4The ultimate Bukowski novel, packed with hilarious episodes - Uncut
Nothing short of a revelation ... I am still haunted by it
—— Evening StandardA delicious novel about an irreverent thirteen year old, Child of All Nations smokes and so does its heroine
—— Erica JongHugely engaging... with room for everything - shrewdness, forgiveness, wit and loneliness - while love makes all its hopeless deals with hope
—— Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces