Charles Bukowski's Scarlet
. . . This is the real deal. Well-written, vivid and moving. While reading it I felt as though I was there in the living room with her and Bukowski. --Dan Fante, author of 86'd and Chump ChangeHere in this valuable, well-written new book is the writer Charles Bukowski as boyfriend, seen from the perspective of his former lover Pamela Cupcakes Wood, one of the girlfriends immortalized in Bukowski's hilarious novel Women. In the midst of a lively, mutually misunderstood romance, Bukowski is revealed as a serious, hard-working, passionate and deeply sensitive man, sincere in everything he said and did, focused always on his writing, and alive to the light and darkness in everyday life. Scarlet reminds the reader of why they admire Charles Bukowski, deepening their understanding of a complex and ultimately loveable personality. --Howard Sounes, author of the classic Bukowski biography Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life. . . I would rank [Scarlet] among the very best of the books about Bukowski. It s an essential piece of the puzzle for sure. --Michael J. Phillips, Bukowski.net