Hot Water Music

6 hrs. 23 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Charles Bukowski

Narrator Alexey Dankov

Description

Charles Bukowski is a cult American writer of the 20th century, whose popularity in Europe has always surpassed his fame in America (in one Germany during his lifetime, the print run of his books exceeded two million). He is the author of more than forty books, including novels, poems, essays, and stories. Despite sometimes shocking naturalism, his texts are full of lyricism—indeed, even a kind of unique sentimentality. Bukowski is rightfully considered a master of the short form, and the only collection of stories from his later work, “Music of Hot Water,” proves it: refining his signature mastery of words to incredible perfection, Bukowski again leads his lyrical hero—the womanizer and drunkard, an obvious alter ego of the author—through every circle of modern Hell.

Contents:
Rougher than a Locust
Or, Burning
A Couple of Tenants
The Great Poet
You Kissed Lilli
A Fiery Little Lady
The World Is Awful
900 Pounds
Decay and Destruction
Have You Read Pirandello
Hits into Nowhere
And the Old Mother
Mournful and Nasty Sorrow
Not Quite Bernadette
Like This Big Damn Thing
Working Day
The Man Who Loved Lifts/Elevators
Head Trouble
Morning from the Whip
Back and Forth
I Love You, Albert
The White Dog Attacks
Town-to-Town Drunks
How to Print Your Book
The Spider
Father’s Death 1
Father’s Death 2
Harry Ann Lenders[29]
Beer at the Corner Bar
A Bird on the Takeoff
A Cold Night
A Service to Don
The Praying Mantis
Battered Goods
Home Run
Like a Finger in the Ass (Around the Little Finger)[/spoiler]