One man's letter-writing addiction will have some very funny consequences Laurence Clarke is having a bad day. His boss realized that his editorial position was made redundant months ago, his wife's discovered that she's got more in common with his best friend Steve, and his ex-wife and her father a
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
β Scribed by Bukowski, Charles
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Year
- 2013;2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Edition
- 2nd revised
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780872860742
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β¦ Synopsis
"People come to my doorβtoo many of them reallyβand knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away. . ."
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