'If I had been born a woman I would certainly have been a prostitute. Since I had been born a man, I craved women constantly , the lower the better.'
Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star running there hundred hangovers a year and sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and uncompromisingly vivid account of life on the edge.
Along with Post Office and Factotum, Women is a classic bestselling novel from Charles Bukowski, widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years.
'One of those writers whom each new reader discovers with a transgressive thrill'
New Yorker