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Charles Bukowski - onetime bum, long-term alcoholic, and author of now-classic novels such as Post Office, Factotum, and Women - rose from obscurity to become world famous. His semiautobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure and culminated in the making of Barfly, a Hollywood film based on Bukowski's life.
In this, the first major biography of Bukowski, Howard Sounes has drawn on years of exhaustive research - including new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, his family, and his many lovers, as well as unprecedented access to his private letters and unpublished writing - to reveal the extraordinary true story of the Dirty Old Man of American literature.
Illustrated with over sixty never-before-published photographs, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life also includes original drawings by Bukowski and unique contributions by friends, including Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, and Harry Dean Stanton.
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Charles Bukowski: locked in the arms of a crazy life
2007, Canongate, Canongate Books
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
2001, Canongate Books Ltd
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
May 2, 2000, Grove Press
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
May 1999, Grove Pr
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Charles Bukowski: locked in the arms of a crazy life
1998, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life: A Biography of Charles Bukowski
November 1998, Canongate Books Ltd
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Charles Bukowski: locked in the arms of a crazy life, the biography
1998, Rebel
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Locked in The Arms of a Crazy Life is the acclaimed biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure across the globe. Extensive research and unique contributions from friends, family and associates - including Mickey Rourke, Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Crumb, Sean Penn, Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg - as well as personal photographs and drawings make this a must for all Bukowski devotees and new readers alike. This updated edition features a new preface by the author, expanded notes and a unique star rating in the bibliography of Bukowski's own works.
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