Factotum

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• Factotum

  "Alzai il culo e me ne andai". Henry Chinaski inizia a lavorare a New Orleans nella distribuzione di una rivista, ma le cose non vanno bene. Salito su un treno per Los Angeles, Henry si reca dai suoi genitori, che però sembrano tutt'altro che content ... (read full critics)

  mangialibri published on Sat, 18 Feb 2012

• Factotum

  Factotum, di seguito riportiamo la trama del romanzo e la presentazione dell'editore. Avventuroso e osceno, divertito e disperato, sboccato e insieme lirico, Factotum, il romanzo che ha rivelato Bukowski al pubblico italiano, è innanzitutto e sopratt ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Mon, 22 Nov 2010

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• strange trip together with the restless sex-starved Henry Chinaski, always drunk and rarely sober, who smokes cigarettes and cheap cigars and likes listening to classical music. Chinaski accepts easily any job he comes along, a very humble job, but after few pages he is terminated. No chances. Durin ... (continue)

  strange trip together with the restless sex-starved Henry Chinaski, always drunk and rarely sober, who smokes cigarettes and cheap cigars and likes listening to classical music. Chinaski accepts easily any job he comes along, a very humble job, but after few pages he is terminated. No chances. During all the 163 pages, he never is going to land on a reliable job
  Short-term jobs, the problems of daily life and the struggle to subsist economically, the book is mostly set at Los Angeles, city which seems full of opportunities for underemployment, and it is populated of amusing characters (among others, prostitutes, looming figures of the bosses who are fully compliant with the rulebook).
  I simply adored such a long strange trip.

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  Albe said on Feb 5, 2012 | Add your feedback

• "You married, Manny?"
  "No way."
  "Women?"
  "Sometimes. But it never lasts."
  "What's the problem?"
  "A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession."
  "I suppose there is an emotional drain."
  "Physical too. They want to fuck night and day."
  "Get one you like to fuck."
  "Yes, but if you dri ... (continue)

  "You married, Manny?"
  "No way."
  "Women?"
  "Sometimes. But it never lasts."
  "What's the problem?"
  "A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession."
  "I suppose there is an emotional drain."
  "Physical too. They want to fuck night and day."
  "Get one you like to fuck."
  "Yes, but if you drink or gamble they think it's a put-down of their love."
  "Get one who likes to drink, gamble and fuck."
  "Who wants a woman like that?"

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  Ste said on Feb 3, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• 

  I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude;but I was dependent on it.

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  常不輕 said on Apr 18, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• Others 163 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0753518155
• ISBN-13: 9780753518151
• Pub date: Feb 05, 2009
• Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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