The Buk book - Jim Christy

A unique look at the phenomenon, Charles Bukowski - BUK- the battered and scarred postal clerk, odd jobs man, and lowly factotum, know considered the best known underground writer' in the English language. Jean Genet called him the 'best poet in America'. His work, raw, crude, heartbreaking, and hilarious has inspired imitators, emulators, sycophants, and detractors. Until now, everything that has been written about the man has suffered accordingly, but here Christy cuts through the crap and writes engaginly about the man, myth and'