{"product_id":"beerspit-night-and-cursing-9781574231502","title":"Beerspit Night and Cursing","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski--America's \"Ultimate Outsider\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInsights into the author of \u003cem\u003eTales of Ordinary Madness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNotes of a Dirty Old Man\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRun with the Hunted\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInsights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBukowski, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Bukowski\u003c\/strong\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003ePulp\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbel Debritto\u003c\/strong\u003e, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCharles Bukowski, King of the Underground\u003c\/em\u003e, and the editor of the Bukowski collections \u003cem\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn Cats\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOn Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527868518674,"sku":"9781574231502","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_261a3216-ceb6-4b6e-845d-96f46d4218d2.jpg?v=1731316118","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beerspit-night-and-cursing-9781574231502","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}