Hollywood

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By Charles Bukowski

Bukowski’s alter ego Henry Chinaski returns, still devoted to drink, women and the racetrack, and makes the unlikely journey from poet to screenwriter.

Based on Bukowski’s own experience of working on the film Barfly, it lays out the absurdity and vanity of the film business in deadpan detail: the endless negotiations, the money that appears and vanishes, and the people who do the back-stabbing. A roman à clef, funny and oddly affectionate.

First published 1989