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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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by Charles Bukowski

ISBN13: 9780876859261
ISBN10: 0876859260
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The late poet, novelist, and (spare the expression) man of letters, Charles Bukowski, is said to have left many books-worth of material in the can (so to speak), but this characteristically gritty piece of Bukowskiana is no patchwork, and was complete and in production at the time of his death. All of Bukowski will one day be essential to every collection--and never cheaper than now.
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Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

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: Keith, November 21, 2007 (view all comments by Keith)
I'm slightly ambivalent towards this book. I have read a bit of Bukowski's poetry and loved it, but this is the first novel of his that I've read (and it's the last novel he wrote). It's dedicated to 'bad writing', and at a reading you would be want to see why, as the writing is fairly atrocious at times, but the plot twists, including Lady Death, seemingly immortal authors, the unfaithful wife, invasion of space aliens, loan sharks, phone sex, and more are at times hilarious, and poignant, as is the dialog. That's what sucked me in to this fast-paced farce of a detective novel and why I'd recommend it to almost anyone (who doesn't have tender sensibilities).
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ISBN:: 9780876859261
Author:: Bukowski, Charles
Publisher:: Ecco
Author:: by Charles Bukowski
Subject:: General
Subject:: California
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Mystery & detective
Subject:: Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
Subject:: Palm springs (calif.)
Subject:: General Fiction
Subject:: Detective and mystery stories
Subject:: Palm Springs (Calif.) Fiction.
Publication Date:: March 1994
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 208
Dimensions:: 9.10x5.86x.55 in. .62 lbs.

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