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A collection of stories from Bukowski which mirror the legendary, violent and depraved life that he describes.

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A .45 to pay the rent; doing time with public enemy no. 1; scenes from the big time; nut ward justs east of Hollywood; would you suggest writing as a career?; the great Zen wedding; reunion; cunt and kant and a happy home; goodbye Watson; great poets die in steaming pots of shit; my stay in the poet's cottage; the stupid Christs; too sensitive; rape! rape!; an evil town; love it or leave it; a dollar and twenty cents; no stockings; a quiet conversation piece; beer and poets and talk; I shot a man in Reno; a rain of women; night streets of madness; purple as an iris; eyes like the sky; one for Walter Lowenfels; notes of a potential suicide; notes on the pest; a bad trip; animal crackers in my soup; a popular man; flower horse; the big pot game; the blanket.

Tales of Ordinary Madness

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A Paperback / softback by Charles Bukowski

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    Publisher: City Lights Books
    Publication Date: 18/01/2001
    ISBN13: 9780872861558, 978-0872861558
    ISBN10: 0872861554

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    A collection of stories from Bukowski which mirror the legendary, violent and depraved life that he describes.

    Table of Contents
    A .45 to pay the rent; doing time with public enemy no. 1; scenes from the big time; nut ward justs east of Hollywood; would you suggest writing as a career?; the great Zen wedding; reunion; cunt and kant and a happy home; goodbye Watson; great poets die in steaming pots of shit; my stay in the poet's cottage; the stupid Christs; too sensitive; rape! rape!; an evil town; love it or leave it; a dollar and twenty cents; no stockings; a quiet conversation piece; beer and poets and talk; I shot a man in Reno; a rain of women; night streets of madness; purple as an iris; eyes like the sky; one for Walter Lowenfels; notes of a potential suicide; notes on the pest; a bad trip; animal crackers in my soup; a popular man; flower horse; the big pot game; the blanket.

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