Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski Paperback Book 9780876855966

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesqueThe stories in Hot Water Music 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 In 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