Women: A Novel

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.

With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

• post office: A Novel
• Ham on Rye: A Novel
• Factotum
• Pulp
• Love is a Dog From Hell
• Hollywood
• You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man
• The Last Night of the Earth Poems
• Essential Bukowski: Poetry