writings of an old pervert

With these stories, collected in this volume and written in complete freedom for the underground magazine Open City, Charles Bukowski immediately became a celebrity—"a living legend" (New York Review of Books)—whose fame skyrocketed with the publication of his other books of stories and poems: "the successor to Miller and Burroughs," commented Le Nouvel Observateur. With his brutality, his wild and tender sense of humor, his tremendous sincerity, Bukowski—drunk, mad, trapped in a society whose supposed values disgust him—manages, with his raw and concise style, to connect immediately with the reader.

With these stories, collected in this volume and written in complete freedom for the underground magazine Open City, Charles Bukowski immediately became a celebrity—"a living legend" (New York Review of Books)—whose fame skyrocketed with the publication of his other books of stories and poems: "the successor to Miller and Burroughs," commented Le Nouvel Observateur. With his brutality, his wild and tender sense of humor, his tremendous sincerity, Bukowski—drunk, mad, trapped in a society whose supposed values disgust him—manages, with his raw and concise style, to connect immediately with the reader.