![]() ![]() I got in beside her and slept.Įxcerpts from Factotum Copyright 1975 by Charles Bukowski and reprinted with the permission of Black Sparrow Press. She pulled the covers up over her head, rolled on her side. ![]() Firemen in large metal helmets with numbers on them. My shorts were also ragged and had cigarette burns in them where the hot ashes had fallen in my lap. The shorts were stained-we wiped with newspapers that we crumpled and softened with our hands-and I often didn't get all of it cleaned off. A couple of hours later there was a loud noise in the hall. Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one. I shut off the alarm and went back to sleep. Buy Factotum by Charles Bukowski for 30.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. or according to our clock 7:27 and one half. ![]() I was too sick one morning to get up at 4:30 a.m. The short excerpt below is Chapter 43 of Factotum. (In Post Office, however, he admits to staying with the Postal Service for over ten years.) This humorous, incredibly honest book is one of Bukowski's most fascinating works. He had legion of differnet jobs, but never seemed to hold on to any single career for long. Although he never stood in front of discount stores holding cardboard signs, at that point in his life Bukowski was more or less a member of the "will work for food" set. First published in 1975, Factotum is a picaresque describing Bukowski (as Henry Chinaski ) during his drifting drunken days, bouncing from job to job. ![]()
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