{"product_id":"tales-of-ordinary-madness","title":"Tales of Ordinary Madness","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTales of Ordinary Madness\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCharles Bukowski\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780872861558\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCity Lights Publishers\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1984\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e238\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, \u003cem\u003eErections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. \u003c\/em\u003eThat book was later split into two volumes and republished: \u003cem\u003e The Most Beautiful Woman in Town\u003c\/em\u003e and, this book, \u003cem\u003e Tales of Ordinary Madness\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground--people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time, a madman, a recluse, a lover; tender, vicious; never the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bukowski ... a professional disturber of the peace ... laureate of Los Angeles netherworld [writes with] crazy romantic insistence that losers are less phony than winners, and with an angry compassion for the lost.\"--Jack Kroll, \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bukowski's works are extraordinarily vivid and often bitterly funny observations of people living on the very edge of oblivion. His poetry, in all its glorious simplicity, was accessible the way poetry seldom is a testament to his genius.\"--Nick Burton, \u003cem\u003ePIF Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"City Lights Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Tales of Ordinary Madness | Charles Bukowski | Paperback | 9780872861558 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks I 1790873","offer_id":68005366988952,"sku":"1790873","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91dflG_o-bL.jpg?v=1794706507","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/tales-of-ordinary-madness","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}