num_pages: 205
description: Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless dunk, drifts around America form one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. Factotum follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years.
language: English
title: Factotum
titlecomplete: Factotum
characters: Henry Chinaski
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Novels, Thriller, Fiction, Poetry, The United States Of America, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 68088
places: Pennsylvania, California, New York City, New York, Los Angeles, California, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Missouri, Miami, Florida, St. Louis, Missouri, Louisiana
publisher: Virgin Books