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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.

With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

About the Author

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

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Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; Later Printing edition (August 14, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0876853904
ISBN-13: 978-0876853900
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
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Dee Dee, Henry Chinaski, Los Angeles, New York City, Joanna Dover, Drayer Baba, Jesus Christ, Hollywood Boulevard, Lydia Vance, Little Jack, San Francisco, Happy New Year, Harry Ascot, Iris Duarte, Joe Washington, Merry Christmas, Playa del Rey, The Lancer, Cutty Sark, Drop On Inn, Hollywood Hills, Katherine Hepburn, Manhattan Beach, New Year's Eve, The Laxative Approach

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This book cites 28 books:

The Captain is Out to Lunch by Charles Bukowski in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Post Office by Charles Bukowski in Front Matter, and Back Matter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers on page 70
Open All Night: New Poems by Charles Bukowski in Front Matter
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski in Front Matter

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5.0 out of 5 stars enter mr. bukowski..., May 2, 2000

By	Charles R Gigante (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

as the first book of charles bukowski's that i ever read, "Women" holds a special place in my heart. it is an insane story of henry chinaski and his misunderstandings and communications with women. autobiographical to an extent, this book, and all of bukowski's, are special because they are so graphically and emotionally honest. no one else paints such candid portraits of the human psyche in its most degenerate and politically incorrect situations. no other author can put so much vulgarity into a work and make it sound as natural as bukowski does. everything and every word in his novels have a place and a meaning, making his writing style so refreshingly satisfying, that you can't help but to live vicariously through his beautiful insanity. "women" introduced me to this great american poet/novelist, and it is my belief that this book definitely makes for a proper introduction to his works.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint of heart, July 23, 2001

By	Saxon Kane "Sax" (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

First off, this book will offend people. It will probably offend you. You need to be offended. You need to be shaken out of your complacency. You need to be smacked upside the head with the crude and vulgar beauty of Bukowski's life and prose. You should get an injection of his drunken, debauched lifestyle. You should read this book.

This is the first Bukowski novel that I have read, on a recommendation from a friend. The man has a way with words. A true Hemingway in the way he gives insightful and penetrating descriptions of people, but never actually tells you what they are thinking. He is able to paint a deep character profile of all the many women in his life with a little dialogue and some crazy actions. Some may find it degrading towards women, but I don't feel that it is. Sure, he is sometimes crude, sometimes angry, sometimes insulting towards women, but he is equally so towards himself. If anything, I feel he shows the tragic sexual immaturity of both women and men. While his lifestyle may be on the extreme, and something that most of us have never even gotten close to, he demonstrates things that anyone who has been in a relationship can identify with.

All in all, I don't think Bukowski was writing a book about relationships that people would identify with. That is far too cheesy and mid '90s flaky for him. I think this was more just a painful self-evisceration. I think he was tearing himself open, and laughing about it, and proudly showing off his darkest, and also his most beautiful, thoughts, actions, and emotions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars human, all too human, May 1, 2006

By	N. goodey "Nick" (new york, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

for a long time i've resisted reading bukowski becuase i sort of thought it might be a bit adolescent . How wrong can you be .This was superb honest and moving .A real account of real relationships and real existence. It's also very funny at points . The narrator chinski is unfailingly honest about himself and the live he leads which stops the book becoming a series of macho conquests .The women give as good as they get in the main and chinski comes across as less of an aggressor and more of a victim of his own desires (as men in real life generally are ) He also allows himself to be very vulnerable, which is what is missing from almost all literary novels .The authors have the technique down....but not the desire to show themselves in all their disgusting, faded ,glorious, human detail . After reading this i went on to read 'Factotum' , 'Love is a dog from hell and other poems' and 'Ham on rye'. All were quite superb ...particularly ' Ham on rye '. It's been a very long time since i've discovered a writer who makes me want to read book after book ..... and also effects the way you see life . You begin to understand through bukowski that the pain we all feel at times in life, is not some terrible thing fate has singled us out to suffer.... but is a part of life to be accepted. In cocnclusion, I'd give it 6 stars if i could.....

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great Bukowski
I just finished Women. While there are some hilarious passages, as you'd expect with Bukowski, I don't think this book measures up to Ham on Rye or Factotum (I have not yet read... Read more

Published 7 days ago by R. J. Wells

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Bukowski was a degenerate pig who fancied himself an artist. His "art" was the slimy fantasies of an alcoholic with rage issues. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bukowski at his best
Great read. If you like Bukowski then you don't want to skip this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Women
This is such a great book, it was very intriguing. It is very straight forward in his encounters with women and goes hand in ahnd with his title of "dirty old man" but it is very... Read more

Published 2 months ago by C. Teti

4.0 out of 5 stars His Best
Of all the books I've read by Charles Bukowski, "Women" has been the one I think about and remember best. "Post Office" is an entertaining read, but it is quite sloppy. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Patrick Sperry

5.0 out of 5 stars Raw and uncouth like Bukowski himself -FANTASTIC!
As of late I've been reading a lot of Bukowski. The man just grows on you. This novel is perhaps my favorite of the six that he wrote during his lifetime. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Carlos Rodriguez

5.0 out of 5 stars Cant live with em, cant live without em...
A must read for any guy who has ever been confounded by the "fairer sex"

Published 5 months ago by Paul Tollenaar

5.0 out of 5 stars Keep it greasy so it'll go in easy
Women is a autobiographical novel about Chamanski's (Bukowski's alter ego) life of excess (mostly with alcohol and sex) all the while he is giving performances as a beatnik... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Matt B. Klein

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