TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bukowski,Charles
AU  - Chiarello,Gail
TI  - Tales of ordinary madness
SN  - 9780753513873
AV  - PS3552.U4 T3 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Virgin
KW  - Subculture
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Fiction
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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