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Hollywood Paperback – January 1, 1989
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From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.
Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld called Hollywood, with its parade of eccentric and maddening characters: producers, artists, actors and actresses, film executives and journalists. In this world, the artistry of books and film is lost to the dollar, and Chinaski struggles to keep his footing in the tangle of cons that comprise movie making.
Hollywood is Dirty Old Man Bukowski at his most lucid. It overflows with curses, sex, and alcohol. And through it all, or from it all, Bukowski finds flashes of truth about the human condition.
- Print length248 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEcco
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1989
- Dimensions5.88 x 0.62 x 8.94 inches
- ISBN-100876857632
- ISBN-13978-0876857632
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Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.
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 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.
Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.
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- Publisher : Ecco; First Edition Thus (January 1, 1989)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 248 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0876857632
- ISBN-13 : 978-0876857632
- Item Weight : 13.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.88 x 0.62 x 8.94 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #293,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #79 in Performing Arts Reference
- #680 in Dark Humor
- #1,359 in Biographical Fiction (Books)
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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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I finished it in Seven hours, couldn’t put it down.
It’s not his best, but isnt the worst.Chinaski became civilized.He owns a house & drives a bmw, Because it’s tax deductible.He is a wealthy man, surrounded by company at all times. He is never alone anymore , and he never goes anywhere without his wife.He isnt as cynical anymore .Borderline optimistic.
The struggle is dead.Chinaski made it.
I saw barfly before reading this one and I had read "Ham on Rye" and "Post Office" which are just as great.
I've been around the film industry and the way it is written is so perfectly said. I do wish he wrote another screenplay or two.
It's got a lot of fun references to the movie. You can google a list of the characters and compare for yourself, if you can't deduce it from the book. Sometimes it is hilarious...and other times not so fun.
Really unique and enjoyable read.
The way he figures out his way among Hollywood excentrism and egotism makes me proud of him.
Invite him - please - for another glass of wine, and he'll tell you how it was.
Great writing!
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It's interesting to read about the actors he comes across, who are easily identifiable if you know about Barfly (the resulting film)and hes as lewd and crude and drunk as ever. The great thing with Bukowski is between the women, gambling, drinking, fighting and writing there will be a page or passage that cuts through all that and grabs you by the heart revealing humanity in all its fragility.












