Septuagenarian Stew
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Septuagenarian Stew

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Septuagenarian Stew

About this book

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait of Los Angeles.

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Information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780876857946
eBook ISBN
9780061882050
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Classiques

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. rags, bottles, sacks
  6. streetcars
  7. the movie critics
  8. SON OF SATAN
  9. flying through space
  10. the burning of the dream
  11. cancer
  12. the summing up
  13. THE LIFE OF A BUM
  14. the girls and the birds
  15. my best friend
  16. if you let them kill you, they will
  17. sometimes it's easier to kill somebody else
  18. A DAY
  19. talk
  20. poem for lost dogs
  21. we must
  22. VENGEANCE OF THE DAMNED
  23. the great slob
  24. this drunk on the next barstool
  25. yawn...
  26. cleansing the ranks
  27. ACTION
  28. red tennis shoes
  29. night quarterhorse racing, Hollywood Park
  30. the click of miracle
  31. sometimes you go a bit crazy
  32. THE JOCKEY
  33. the guillotine
  34. an angel and an asshole
  35. I am known
  36. I like your books
  37. nowhere
  38. CAMUS
  39. too much
  40. hell is a lonely place
  41. not from the same mould
  42. final word
  43. Jeffers
  44. FAME
  45. my friend, Howie
  46. ruin
  47. until the last day or night of your life
  48. NO WING HIGH
  49. postcard
  50. the strongest of the strange
  51. cause and effect
  52. BAD NIGHT
  53. the fighter
  54. on the rebound
  55. stupid pain
  56. a wild, fresh wind blowing…
  57. all the way to the grave
  58. BRING ME YOUR LOVE
  59. moving up the ladder
  60. the Rape of the Holy Mother
  61. this most delicate profession
  62. THE WRITERS
  63. for the lady who hates it
  64. company
  65. BLOCKED
  66. the good old machine
  67. drunk with the Buddha
  68. Red
  69. NO LOVE SONGS
  70. just trying to get a little service…
  71. birthday party
  72. always
  73. STRIKEOUT
  74. yeah
  75. days and nights
  76. the masses
  77. my father
  78. .191
  79. horseshoe
  80. a friend
  81. gold in your eye
  82. my buddy
  83. LONELY AT THE TOP
  84. the last person
  85. it's funny, isn't it?
  86. the last hiding place
  87. BUY ME SOME PEANUTS AND CRACKERJACK
  88. getting old
  89. a bit of gardening
  90. at the Sizzler
  91. immortal wino
  92. Paris
  93. THE WINNER
  94. pernicious anemia
  95. the orderly
  96. the nurses
  97. THERE’S NO BUSINESS
  98. celebrating this
  99. slump
  100. the last drink
  101. MAD ENOUGH
  102. tired in the afterdusk
  103. swift and slow
  104. Luck
  105. About the Author
  106. By Charles Bukowski
  107. Copyright
  108. About the Publisher