Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski was a Los Angeles underground writer whose fiction and poetry of skid row, horse racing, and cheap rooming houses found a vast international audience. Post Office and Factotum are his major novels.
Works
- Post OfficeNovel depicting the bleakness and absurdity of working at the post office
- FactotumPicaresque novel following a man through jobs, women, and urban alienation
- WomenNovel chronicling a man's serial affairs and relationships with various women
- Ham on RyeSemiautobiographical novel of a young man's experiences during Depression-era poverty
- HollywoodNovel about a screenplay writer's cynical pursuit of success in Hollywood