South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life by Charles Bukowski (PDF)

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South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

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⭐South of No North is a collection of short stories as uneven and mercurial as Charles Bukowski himself. I breezed through his six novels years ago and find myself missing his voice as a narrator so I think I’ll go through his short story collections now. His work on aggregate–sometimes bad, often great–inspires and entertains. The stories here are no exception. Many are not memorable, but the excellence of “The Devil Was Hot,” “Guts,” “A Shipping Clerk with a Red Nose,” and “This is What Killed Dylan Thomas” merit a 5-Star rating. These tales are very humorous stories and full of life. They’ll make you laugh and admire the honesty of old Hank. A lot of the themes developed are bare bones versions of plots that later appear in his novels. South of No North is a must have for any fans of the Great Buk!

⭐You won’t find a better book of short stories anywhere, particularly if you’re a Bukowski fan. Dirty stories, funny stories…it’s all here. Some real classics to grab off the shelf for a little entertainment anytime you need it.

⭐This was the last of Bukowski’s prose that I had left to read. These stories are all prime Bukowski, though some are a bit more graphic than his novels, if that’s even possible. I’m a huge Bukowski fan. I’ll miss reading new stuff.

⭐Not all of Bukowski’s enormous output of poetry is of equally high quality, but I’ve yet to read a Bukowski short story that wasn’t well crafted. Whatever your attitude toward his subject matter and apparent philosophy of life, you must respect his lean and evocative prose style. Anyone trying to write should acquire his skill at conveying everything needed with the minimum of words. This is a trait shared by most good writing, and it can be acquired through practice. The first step is to know exactly what it is you want to tell.If good writing can be learned, then why aren’t we all renowned authors? That’s where talent comes aboard, and talent is what showed Bukowski the universal and engaging elements around him and let him express them effectively via fictional and autobiographical characters.

⭐Really fast prime delivery, very qualitative and pretty paperback 🙂

⭐Bukowski captures the essence of skid row. He is the voice of those who have given up on society, and maybe on themselves. This is an intersting take. These forgoton masses are usually kept silent, and often oppressed by labels…drunk, bum, trash. But through his writing, Bukowski has shown that these people which society deems worthless, are actually people with souls, hopes, and dreams. These hopes and dreams may not always be within the mores of society, but they are hopes and dreams nontheless. Bukowski brought a picture of those select people out of the gutter, and into the minds of main stream society.

⭐Love Charles Bukowski. This is not his best work by far. Read post office if you want to see Charles Bukowski at the height of his form.

⭐I like almost anything by Bukowski, but I especially like the stories in which he can laugh at himself. This is my review. There and nowhere Else

⭐It’s my second time owning this book after losing the last one at some point. The quality is noticeably cheaper this time around. The cover and spine have no guts to them, the colours on the cover are different and less striking, the barcode and writing on the spine are a bit blurry and not sharp at all, and a printing company (a well known choice for self-publishing authors) is mentioned inside. I think this edition is a fake and will be reporting it to the publisher.On top of it all, it was horribly packaged and arrived battered, dented and dirty. Amazon’s ‘service’ is a total joke to me at this point and I’d recommend anyone interested in buying this great book to look for alternative sellers for this product and any others in the future.

⭐Assumed this would be a direct sequel to Post Office but Henry Chinaski appears only in a few of these collected short stories. Still a very enjoyable read.

⭐Lovely book

⭐Some of the most striking, powerful, and down-trodded prose you’re ever likely to read. Memorising and maniacal in equal measure. One or two shorts show the influence of Fante’s work in a way that’s beautifull evolutionary.

⭐Entertaining book.

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