Factotum

Author: Charles Bukowski

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless dunk, drifts around America form one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour.Factotum follows Charles Bukowski’s bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical firs….Read More

18 Books Similar to Factotum

Pulp

Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the… Continue Reading Posted in: Dark Humor, Detective And Mystery Stories Gsafd, Hard-Boiled Mystery, Suspense Fiction

Screwjack

Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book. They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Fiction, Short Stories

Ham on Rye

Follows the path of the author's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism.… Continue Reading Posted in: Autobiographical Fiction, Manners And Customs, Teenage Boys

Requiem For A Dream

In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. She becomes addicted to diet pills in… Continue Reading Posted in: Art of Film & Video, English Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Mothers And Sons, Parents Of Drug Addicts

Women

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereLow-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his… Continue Reading Posted in: Alcoholics, Black Humor (Literature), Classic American Literature, Dark Humor, Psychological Fiction

The Brotherhood of the Grape

Henry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, brick laying father,… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Contemporary American Fiction, Family, Italian American Families, Italian Americans

Hollywood

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, United States

The Wasp Factory

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, Dark Humor, Fiction In English, Self-Help & Psychology Humor, Teenage Boys

1933 Was a Bad Year

Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to big leagues,… Continue Reading Posted in: Bildungsromane, Children's eBooks, Contemporary American Fiction, Depressions, Fiction

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

"People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction Anthologies, Bukowski, Charles, Fiction, Short Stories, Social Life And Customs

South of No North

South of No North contains some of Bukowski's best work. Among the short stories collected in the book are Love for $17.50, about a man named Robert whose infatuation with… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Manners And Customs, Short Stories, Short Stories In English 1900 Texts

Trainspotting

The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan… Continue Reading Posted in: Black Humor (Literature), Dark Humor, Humorous Stories, Medicine In Literature, Urban Fiction

Lonesome Traveler

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a… Continue Reading Posted in: Beat Generation, Classic Literature & Fiction, Description And Travel, Medieval Thought Philosophy, Poetry

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness was a paperback collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, first published by City Lights Publishers in 1972.[1] It was the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction

West of Rome

West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano,… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction

Hot Water Music

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Biographical Fiction, Broadsides, English Fiction Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing, Short Stories

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Home Decorating, Social Life And Customs, Tablesetting & Cooking

Leave a Reply