Factotum follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. 9780753518151 Factotum 29.9000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/contemporary Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next.

Neeli Cherkovski was a close friend of Bukowski and is the author of Hank- The Life of Charles Bukowski (Random House, 1991) He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jo.

Factotum by charles bukowski