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1978•304 pages•Published•ENG•User Reviews

Women

3.7/ 5
28 ratings

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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

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FictionMan-woman relationshipsMan-woman relationships in fictionAlcoholics in fictionAlcoholicsHumor (Fiction)Fiction, womenUnited states, fictionFiction, psychologicalBlack Sparrow press. 1978Fiction, generalFiction in English

The Swinging Light

Book Details

First Published

1978

Pages

304 pages

Rating

3.7 / 5

Ratings

28

Editions

16

Publisher

Star Books

Language

ENG, RUS, FRE

Status

Published

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