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Title	:	Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
Author	:	Howard Sounes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	May 2nd 2000 by Grove Press (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Poetry

Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Howard Sounes

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 3092 Users | 63 Reviews

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A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly) based on his life. Drawing on new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, family, and many lovers; unprecedented access to his private letters and unpublished writing; and commentary from Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, and Harry Dean Stanton, Howard Sounes has uncovered the extraordinary true story of the Dirty Old Man of American literature. Illustrated with drawings by Bukowski and over sixty photographs, Charles Bukowski is a must for Bukowski devotees and new readers alike. As the Los Angeles Times noted, "Bukowski is one of those writers people remember more for the legend than for the work....but, as Howard Sounes shows in this exhaustively researched biography, it wasn't the whole story."

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Original Title:	Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
ISBN:	0802136974 (ISBN13: 9780802136978)
Edition Language:	English

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A decently written, fairly objective account of "The Bard of East Hollywood".

Bukowski is one of my favorite authors. Howard Sounes made me feel like I knew him.

Very interesting to know a little bit more about the real people behind Bukowski's characters

Writers and Poets, in particular, evince quite a bit about themselves through their words. Great Biographers like Howard Sounes distinguish the writer's personal life behind their words; they help us round out their complex life puzzle and personal history. Howard Sounes achieves this through credible sources and interviews with the women who knew Bukowski and his personal correspondence with: John Martin, Ferlinghetti, etc. IRS and FBI records.Sounes clarifies and confirms the Bukowski we

A journeyman author does bio of lowlife, nasty drunk (but ok when sober) who could write and did write non-stop (except when drunk or betting on the horses or screwing-in that order). Who did well for himself finally financially (he never thought he would--poets make money?) Who finally figured out how to live with a woman (more or less) Who liked cats

This biography seemed to me to be more unnecessary than most, considering how much of his own life Bukowski used in his fiction, but I found it not entirely unentertaining.

- Fascinated by the monster and child in this man.- Poetry and life mostly inspired by his painful experiences and the bottom of American society- Painfully shy, awkward, and self-destructive man (and drunkard); these I think made him more capable of producing raw and sex-grounded poetry - One true love, Linda, writes to him "Your women are all weak and floppy and untrue. My heart is a wild sensuous bird and it's always wanting to fly. Fly Bukowski, you're afraid to fly." - Favorite part: from