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Overview book of Factotum One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski. Factotum by Charles Bukowski Factotum Epub Factotum Download vk Factotum Download ok.ru Factotum Download Youtube Factotum Download Dailymotion Factotum Read Online Factotum mobi Factotum Download Site Factotum Book Factotum PDF Factotum TXT Factotum Audiobook Factotum Kindle Factotum Read Online Factotum Playbook Factotum full page Factotum amazon Factotum free download Factotum format PDF Factotum Free read And download Factotum download Kindle PDF[EPUB] Factotum Full Ebook by Charles Bukowski Description One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski..

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The Autobiographical Fiction of Charles Bukowski Daniel Bigna A
Life on the Margins: The Autobiographical Fiction of Charles Bukowski Daniel Bigna A Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy 2005 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my supervisors Susan Lever, Heather Neilson and Jeff Doyle for invaluable guidance and support, and Fiona, Simon and Jamie for infinite patience and encouragement. I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no material previously published or written by another person, nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at UNSW or any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis. Any contribution made to the research by others, with whom I have worked at UNSW or elsewhere, is explicity acknowledged in the thesis. I also declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my own work, except to the extent that assistance from others in the project's design and conception or in style, presentation and linguistic expression is acknowledged. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. 1 Chapter One - Bukowski in Context. 24 Chapter Two – The Development of Bukowski’s Alternative Literary 48 Aesthetic in the novels Post Office , Factotum and Women. Chapter Three - Ham on Rye - The Troubled Birth of an Artist. 89 Chapter Four - Hot Water Music - The Grotesque and 108 the Artist Demystified. Chapter Five - Hollywood - A Non-Conformist in a Strange World.
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