Women - Mil Folhas Collection 41

A fringe writer and inveterate alcoholic, Henry Chinaski is a survivor. At 50 years old, after decades of poorly paid and dead-end odd jobs, blowing money on women and drinks, his career as a poet finally launches him into stardom. Unexpected success brings with it an insatiable desire to make up for lost time, to live what he hadn't lived. A frantic pace of sexual encounters and epic hangovers compose the portrait of an incorrigible hedonist who seeks not love in women, but inspiration.

A semi-autobiographical novel, Women is a brutally human and honest account of intoxicated nights and lost women. In his raw and dark style and with a caricature-like shrewdness about human relationships, Bukowski welcomes us into his eccentric daily life, where there is always another beer to open and a woman to seduce.