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On Love
Charles Bukowski
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Description for On Love
Paperback. Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives Editor(s): Debritto, Abel. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 158.
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance and redemptive power. Whether writing about his daughter, his lover, or his work, Bukowski is fiercely honest and reflective, using love as a prism to look at the world and to view his own vulnerable ... Read more
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance and redemptive power. Whether writing about his daughter, his lover, or his work, Bukowski is fiercely honest and reflective, using love as a prism to look at the world and to view his own vulnerable ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782117308
SKU
V9781782117308
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About Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there ... Read more
Reviews for On Love
A literary immortal
Time
He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels
Leonard Cohen The best poet in America
Jean Genet Reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable
The Times
Time
He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels
Leonard Cohen The best poet in America
Jean Genet Reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable
The Times