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Hollywood - Paperback

by Charles Bukowski
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Availability:In StockContributor:Charles BukowskiPublish date:2002-05-31Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780876857632ISBN-10:876857632UPC:9780876857632Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Urban & Street Lit, BiographicalSize:8.92 x 5.94 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCXPS660YZ

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.

Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld called Hollywood, with its parade of eccentric and maddening characters: producers, artists, actors and actresses, film executives and journalists. In this world, the artistry of books and film is lost to the dollar, and Chinaski struggles to keep his footing in the tangle of cons that comprise movie making.

Hollywood is Dirty Old Man Bukowski at his most lucid. It overflows with curses, sex, and alcohol. And through it all, or from it all, Bukowski finds flashes of truth about the human condition.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780876857632ISBN-10:876857632UPC:9780876857632Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Urban & Street Lit, BiographicalSize:8.92 x 5.94 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCXPS660YZ
Bukowski, Charles: -

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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