RUN WITH THE HUNTED: a charles bukowski reader

What put me off reading Bukowski for a long time was not his writing, but the people I met who were 'into bukowski' or the emulation of his myth, they were usually pretentious talentless hacks who drank too much at parties and ended up throwing up in the recycling box on the porch. I read a few stories from Tales of Ordinary Madness in the early 90's but never followed it up, until about ten years later, I started a more comprehensive reading of his work, poetry mostly and some of his letters, so when I dropped by the bookstore where I work the odd day now and again, Robert the owner was cleaning the covers on a stack of recently purchased books, I noticed the Bukowski Reader and decided to snap it up before it hit the shelf. If you're looking for the hard drinking, brawling, womanizing, tough guy there's some of that here, but there is also so much more...the hard is there to protect the soft....that blue bird in the heart...... edited with care by John Martin, the right man for the job.