Pulp
By Charles Bukowski.
Published by Ecco.
Published in 1994.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 9780876859261
ISBN-13: 978-0876859261
Description:
“Poet laureate of the
down-and-out.” – LA Times.
Opening with the exotic
Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer
named Cèline, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and
realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.
Pulp is essential
fiction from Buk himself.
Nicky Belane, private
detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by
broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he’s
hired to do. Not only does he have to track down French classical author Cèline
– who’s meant to be dead – but he also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow
– which may or may not be real.
Pulp is Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a
detective story.
Packed with wit,
invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel by
one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century.