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Women: A Novel Paperback – February 27, 2007

by Charles Bukowski (Author)

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How-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.

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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 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.

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Ecco; Reprint edition (July 29, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061177598
ISBN-13: 978-0061177590
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 326 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #107 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Humor & Satire > Dark Humor
- #260 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Self-Help & Psychology
- #266 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Classics

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Garrett Zecker

Engrossing Voice In A Book "Every Man Needs To Read"

May 4, 2016

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I read Women immediately following Post Office, and it is also a part of my Esquire 75 Books Every Man Needs To Read reading challenge. Women is the 20th book on the list (not including books I will be rereading).

After the death of his postal career along with the love of his life, Bukowski’s Chianski begins to scour trashy America for experience, art, booze, and sex. His career is beginning to take off and he can do

more than merely survive in his existence, and he begins to explore himself and his relationships in this semi-autobiographical novel about much the same things as his other novels, but with a marked difference in literary style and execution as well as notoriety and accomplishment as an artist.

The focus of this piece is easily the paper-thin relationships that Chianski surrounds himself with. Every escapade leads to some revelation about his manhood, his fame, and his constant brush with the women that seem to constantly contrast with his one vice – a penchant for finding the most emotionally unstable women to have weekend relationships with, and being both unsatisfied with the sex and relationship, and surprised when the women cling to him with fervent desire.

In Women, Bukowski has improved and expanded his literary dance with being both anti-pedantic in diction and syntax while at the same time being misleading in his ability to screw intensive literary symbolism and devices into this somewhat simple work. The result is scrupulous, tireless literary and linguistic acrobatics that lead across the wasteland of white-trash slums and heighten Chianski’s vices and sexual escapades to that of religious reverence.

Definitely deserves its place on Esquire's list.

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Leah Q

This feminist loves all things Bukowski lol

May 27, 2018

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You'll either love Bukowski or hate him. His writing is raw and crass and often gross. I'm a gd feminist and have read every Bukowski book in print with the exception of a few of his poetry books. If you're offended easily or uptight or prim, his stuff is not for you. If you want to go through the day to day foulness of a foul man's life with him inside his head in the most extraordinarily written diary-style books then Bukowski is for you.

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Henry Beige

Classic Bukowski

November 27, 2015

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When people ask me about Bukowski, I usually say, just try reading some. There is no one quite like him. The first time I read him, as a college student in the sixties, I was astonished that anyone so depraved could be so literate. As down-and-out as Jim Thompson, but with more booze and explicit, matter-of-fact sex. But for Bukowski, it's not so much about the sex as about the relationships (mostly unsatisfactory), and about the hard vicissitudes in the life of a marginally celebrated author and poet. Above all, Bukowski is funny.

"Women" is classic Bukowski, a book I have picked up many times over the years, either to read straight through or just to browse. Try some. If you find him addicting, there is lots more.

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Joseph Carter

A rollercoaster laced with Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll

July 8, 2015

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Let's start off by saying...Wow. This book was a rollercoaster!

I first heard of this book when I watched a behind the scenes documentary on one of my favorite shows, Californication. It was mentioned that Henry Chilaski, main character in the book, was the model for the show's hank Moody. After I read the book, I could not agree more. nail, coffin, done.

The book has a no holds barred atmosphere. Not a few pages in and Henry Chilaski is in a whirlwind of violation drinking, drugs and constant sexual encounters. I found myself sympathizing with the Chilaski character as the story goes on. In moments of the book it reminded me of parts of my life. It has a way off pulling you in and then slamming your fingers in the door.

Bukowski's renegade and raw approach to writing is known world wide and this book does not hold any punches. It's fast and full of life. I read it in a two night sitting and it left me yearning for more.

This book is definitely worth the pick up. It's funny, charming, entertaining, dismissive, angry and rude all rolled into one.

I hope you have as much fun with it, as I did.

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If you want to read Bukowski's prose at its best, you've gotta read Women

November 20, 2017

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If you want to read Bukowski's prose at its best, you've gotta read Women, Post Office and Ham on Rye. Phenomenal reads. You'll laugh til your stomach hurts, gasp in horror, and shake your head at the debauched ways of Hank Chinaski. A must-read for lovers of contemporary fiction. The bold, brash prose is addictive and flawlessly done -- raw and shameless.

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I have read other Bukowski's books and have really enjoyed them. For some reason I put off reading ...

May 19, 2016

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I have read other Bukowski's books and have really enjoyed them. For some reason I put off reading this book for a long time because I thought it would just be more of the same. But I was really pleasantly surprised by the content. Bukowski's unique, coarse, and candid voice is as strong as ever, but he writes about his growing fame. You come to see a man who is challenged by his own success and also surprised. Overall, I really enjoyed this book and recommend it. But obviously the sexual content may be off-putting to many people.

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Gabriel

Just what I expected from one of the most honest writers, ever

June 12, 2015

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Charles Bukowski is an acquired taste and his work isn't something I would recommend to my girlfriend or mother. With that said, "Women" was probably the most entertaining novel I've experienced because of how easy it is to read and the honest humor. Charles lived the way life is meant to be lived: in excess with no regard for the opinion of others or the consequences of his actions. Haha. Reading this book is like having a conversation with the man himself as he shares with you the many triumphs and fewer follies of his insatiable appetite for long legs and alcohol...a true connoisseur of women, he is always able to find something to adore in each woman he met and you get a sense that there were some who he truly wanted to care for--just not enough to be faithful because, unfortunately, God made too many good ones. Give this book a try. You won't believe how much fun you can have by yourself without looking at porn.

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