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Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives

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Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives

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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 place in it.

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“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
A beautiful, begrimed meander through love in all its facets: tough love, romantic love, unrequited love, passionate love - and also paternal love, which emerges after Bukowski's daughter is born. A book to keep on your bedside table for insomniac nights . . . the very best of Charles Bukowski Country & Town House

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About the Author

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 the rest of his life. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

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Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives. 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 place in it.

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Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Published
4th August 2016
Edition
Main
Pages
224
ISBN
9781782117308

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