Tales of ordinary madness / Charles Bukowski ; edited by Gail Chiarrello.

By: Bukowski, Charles, 1920-1994Contributor(s): Chiarello, Gail [editor.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English London : Virgin, 2009©2008 Description: 231 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780753513873 (paperback)Subject(s): Subculture -- California -- Los Angeles -- FictionLOC classification: PS3552.U4 T3 2009
Contents:
A .45 to pay the rent -- Doing time with public enemy no. 1 -- Scenes from the big time -- Nut war just east of Hollywood -- Would you suggest writing as a career? -- The great Zen wedding -- Reunion -- Cunt and Kant and a happy home -- Goodbye Watson -- Great poets die in steaming pots of shit -- My stay in the poet's cottage -- The stupid christs -- Too sensitive -- Rape! rape! -- An evil town -- Love it or leave it -- A dollar and twenty cents -- No stockings -- A quiet conversation piece -- Beer and poets and talk -- I shot a man in Reno-- A rain of women -- Night streets of madness -- Purple as an iris -- Eyes like the sky -- One for Walter Lowenfels -- Notes of a potential suicide -- Notes on the pest -- A bad trip -- Animal crackers in my soup -- A popular man -- Flower horse -- The big pot game -- The blanket
Summary: A collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that the inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music, the author of this book 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.
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Originally published: San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights, 1983.

A .45 to pay the rent -- Doing time with public enemy no. 1 -- Scenes from the big time -- Nut war just east of Hollywood -- Would you suggest writing as a career? -- The great Zen wedding -- Reunion -- Cunt and Kant and a happy home -- Goodbye Watson -- Great poets die in steaming pots of shit -- My stay in the poet's cottage -- The stupid christs -- Too sensitive -- Rape! rape! -- An evil town -- Love it or leave it -- A dollar and twenty cents -- No stockings -- A quiet conversation piece -- Beer and poets and talk -- I shot a man in Reno-- A rain of women -- Night streets of madness -- Purple as an iris -- Eyes like the sky -- One for Walter Lowenfels -- Notes of a potential suicide -- Notes on the pest -- A bad trip -- Animal crackers in my soup -- A popular man -- Flower horse -- The big pot game -- The blanket

A collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that the inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music, the author of this book 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.