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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Oct 30, 2024 3:26 PM

Author:Charles Bukowski

Tales of Ordinary Madness

Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski inhabited.

From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his 'tales of ordinary madness'. These are angry yet tender, humorous and haunting portrayals of life in the underbelly of Los Angeles.

Reviews

Dirty realism from the godfather of lowlife literature

—— Uncut

The most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time

—— Daily Mail

The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx

—— The Times

Imbued with the innocence, empathy, and kindness that always seemed central to Vonnegut's sensibility

—— Lionel Shriver , Financial Times

(Vonnegut) was a splendid preacher of American populism at its most radical...always funny and sometimes refreshingly vulgar

—— Independent

The best of these unpublished pieces are as mad, bitter, hilarious and, in their healthy disrespect not only for 'Get Tough America' but for humanity in general, as startlingly timely as the best of his output

—— Daily Telegraph

You should buy this book

—— Spectator

Dark, funny and disturbing

—— London Review of Books
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