And, another oddball hires him to track down the space alien, Jeannie, who is haunting him, Of course, there are the obligatory mobsters and guns and bartenders and dames. He is also engaged by a producer who wants him to catch the wife in the act, but that doesnt go well. In between scratching his balls and taking shots of scotch, he encounters several odd clients, including Lady Death (who has legs that go on forever) who wants him to find Celine, the writer. In it, Bukowski creates a character, Nick Belaine, with a one-man PI office in Los Angeles. This book must be read with the deep understanding that it is not to be taken seriously. Sheer genius that move was! Although it might sell better if the publisher lowered the price to a reasonable level.
He wrote about booze and broads and rambled on.īukowski brilliantly entitled the book, "Pulp." I say brilliant because, although he died in 1994, he had the foresight to know that there would be an internet and that there would be Amazon and that, if he entitled his final book "Pulp," it would always be at the top of the list whenever anyone searched for pulp or pulp fiction. So that kind of gives you the flavor of his writing. Another one of his books is entitled Notes of a Dirty Old Man. If Bukowski were alive today, I am sure he wouldn't have it any other way.
His writing is either considered literary genius or drunken ramblings of a fool. Charles Bukowski is one of the those writers you either love or hate.
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