Love Is a Dog from Hell

Name: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Rating: 3.4615384615384617 (52 reviews)
Author: Charles Bukowski
ISBN: 9780876853627

by Charles Bukowski

3.5

(52 ratings)

312 pages6 editions2002Black SparrowISBN 9780876853627

Nonfiction Poetry American poetry Poetry (poetic works by one author)Literature and fiction, authors, conversations, interviews, and readingsAmerican literature

About this book

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.

Publication Details

Publisher: Black Sparrow
Published: 2002
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780876853627
Language: en
Editions: 6

About Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, and is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having over 60 books in print. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife."