num_pages: 150
description: An account of Charles Bukowski's 1978 European trip. In 1978 Europe was new territory for Bukowski holding the secrets of his own personal ancestry and origins. En route to his birthplace in Andernach, Germany, he is trailed by celebrity-hunters and paparazzi, appears drunk on French television, blows a small fortune at a Dusseldorf racetrack and stands in a Cologne Cathedral musing about life and death.
language: English
title: Shakespeare Never Did This
titlecomplete: Shakespeare Never Did This
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Biography, Americana, Poetry, Travel, Humor, Photography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2140
places: Düsseldorf, Germany, Mannheim, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg
publisher: Black Sparrow Press