Charles Bukowski
Subtitle: locked in the arms of a crazy life
By: Howard Sounes ; drawings by Charles Bukowski.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Bukowski, Charles; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Beat generation -- Biography; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Other titles: Locked in the arms of a crazy life
Description: Charles Bukowski - onetime bum, long-term alcoholic, and author of now-classic novels such as Post Office, Factotum, and Women - rose from obscurity to become world famous. His semiautobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure and culminated in the making of Barfly, a Hollywood film based on Bukowski's life.

In this, the first major biography of Bukowski, Howard Sounes has drawn on years of exhaustive research - including new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, his family, and his many lovers, as well as unprecedented access to his private letters and unpublished writing - to reveal the extraordinary true story of the Dirty Old Man of American literature.

Illustrated with over sixty never-before-published photographs, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life also includes original drawings by Bukowski and unique contributions by friends, including Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, and Harry Dean Stanton.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.