The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: The Writing Life

Review

"He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels" (LEONARD COHEN)

"A literary immortal" (Time)

"He was a man challenging the world, both with fists and words, a provocateur of amazing abilities" (Los Angeles Times)

"A master prose writer" (Guardian)

About the Author

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. At the forefront of American counter-culture, his Beat Generation writing is widely celebrated. He was born in Germany in 1920 to an American soldier father and a German mother and was brought to the United States at the age of three. He grew up in Los Angeles and lived there for the majority of his life.

During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books, including novels such as Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye. He died in 1994 shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.