{"product_id":"9780876855966","title":"Hot Water Music","description":"Author: Charles Bukowski\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780876855966\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Nov 2002\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in \u003cem\u003eHot Water Music\u003c\/em\u003e.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003cem\u003eHot Water Music\u003c\/em\u003e dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton – and depict the darkest parts of human existence.  Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art – his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919281963166,"sku":"ING-9780876855966","price":23.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780876855966.jpg?v=1782809700","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780876855966","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}