{"product_id":"love-is-a-dog-from-hell-charles-bukowski","title":"Love Is A Dog From Hell;  Charles Bukowski","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanuary 1, 1977\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Charles Bukowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (born as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeinrich Karl Bukowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/141526.Pulp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003ePulp\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1994), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/50463.Screams_from_the_Balcony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eScreams from the Balcony\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1993), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/70884.The_Last_Night_of_the_Earth_Poems\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eThe Last Night of the Earth Poems\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1992).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51946674127170,"sku":null,"price":7.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/loveisadog.jpg?v=1770408148","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/love-is-a-dog-from-hell-charles-bukowski","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}