Absence of the Hero

by Charles Bukowski

Book Overview

Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. Absence of the Hero contains much of his earliest fiction, unseen in decades, as well as a number of previously unpublished stories and essays. The classic Bukowskian obsessions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872865312
• ISBN13: 9780872865310
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"