"Caroline Corbett wants nothing to do with her father, Hoff, a man who abandoned her as a young girl and then vanished from her life almost thirty years ago. But when her beloved aunt expresses a dying wish to see him once more, Caroline, despite her failing marriage and other personal troubles, dro
The bell tolls for no one: stories
β Scribed by Charles Bukowski
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 303 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 087286684X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. An informative introduction by editor David Stephen Calonne provides historical context for these seemingly scandalous and chaotic tales, revealing the hidden hand of the master at the top of his form.
"The uncollected gutbucket ramblings of the grand dirty old man of Los Angeles letters have been gathered in this characteristically filthy, funny compliation ... Bukowkski's gift was a sense for the raunchy absurdity of life, his writing a grumble that might turn into a belly laugh or a racking cough but that always throbbed with vital energy."--_Kirkus Reviews_
Born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, Charles Bukowski published his first...
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