Hollywood (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

~ Charles Bukowski (Author)

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John Pinchot, un enloquecido director de cine, se empena en llevar a la pantalla sus relatos de juventud, o sea, la autobiografia de un alcoholico empedernido. Chinaski desconfia del proyecto, aunque acepta a reganadientes escribir el guion de la pelicula. Y comienzan los verdaderos problemas. El autor cuenta las experiencias de su alter ego Chinaski durante la filmacion de la pelicula Barfly, interpretada por Mickey Rourke y Faye Dunaway. Una vision sarcastica, acida y corrosiva de los entretelones de Hollywood en la que desfilan personajes curiosos y excentricos. Un mundo duro donde todo gira alrededor del sacrosanto dolar.

About the Author

Cjarles Bukowski (Estados Unidos, 1920-1994). Fue el ultimo escritor maldito de la literatura norteamericana.

Product Details

• Paperback: 319 pages
• Publisher: Anagrama; 11th edition (April 15, 2009)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 843391426X
• ISBN-13: 978-8433914262
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,077,716 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but not his Best, September 14, 2008

By	Bernard Chapin "Ora Et Labora!" (CHICAGO! USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I'm not sure exactly what to say about Hollywood. I certainly enjoyed it and always appreciate Bukowski at some level. In terms of his novels, I'd place this one behind Factotum, Post Office, and Women. Ham and Rye I have not yet read but will...unlike Pulp (whose subject matter does not appeal to me). I think that Hollywood's lack of edge--in comparison with his past achievements--reflects his newfound personal domesticity at the time it was penned. He was living with Linda (Sarah), and moving out of the low rent digs that formed the infrastructure of his life so it's a more sober work than the rest. Indeed, he was an older and more sober man in the eighties and conscious of his own mortality. The narrator mentions that Linda's presence gave him an extra 10 years and he may have been right about that. There's still some of the old joy in these pages though. Several scenes will make you smile and laugh aloud such as the name of his initial screenplay "The Dance of Jim Beam." The bottom line is that Bukowski is always worth the effort.

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1.0 out of 5 stars be warned, April 22, 2008

By	Jared Stroud - See all my reviews

for some stupid reason this book is in Spanish & I assumed that since everything else on this page including the reviews that book would be as well