South of no north : stories of the buried life

South of No North contains some of Bukowski's best work. Among the short stories collected in the book are Love for $17.50, about a man named Robert whose infatuation with a mannequin in a junk shop leads him first to buy it, then make love to it, and then eventually fall in love with "her," much to the consternation of his real-life girlfriend; Maja Thurup, about a South American tribesman with an enormous penis who is brought to Los Angeles by the woman anthropologist who has "discovered" him and become his lover; and The Devil is Hot, about an encounter with Old Nick at an amusement pier in Santa Monica, where Scratch himself is caged and on display, fed only peanut butter and dogfood, exploited by a cynical carnie.The collection also features two of Bukowski's finest and most famous short stories: All the Assholes in the World Plus Mine, an autobiographical rumination on the treatment of his hemorrhoids, and Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With Beasts. (The latter story originally was published as a chapbook of 500 copies by Bensenville Mimeo Press in 1965.)The short stories collected in the volume are evocative of Bukowski at his best, when he was one of the premier short story writers still at the top of his talent.Book description to come. South of No North contains some of Bukowski's best work. Among the short stories collected in the book are Love for $17.50, about a man named Robert whose infatuation with a mannequin in a junk shop leads him first to buy it, then make love to it, and then eventually fall in love with "her," much to the consternation of his real-life girlfriend; Maja Thurup, about a South American tribesman with an enormous penis who is brought to Los Angeles by the woman anthropologist who has "discovered" him and become his lover; and The Devil is Hot, about an encounter with Old Nick at an amusement pier in Santa Monica, where Scratch himself is caged and on display, fed only peanut butter and dogfood, exploited by a cynical carnie. The collection also features two of Bukowski's finest and most famous short stories: All the Assholes in the World Plus Mine, an autobiographical rumination on the treatment of his hemorrhoids, and Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With Beasts. (The latter story originally was published as a chapbook of 500 copies by Bensenville Mimeo Press in 1965.) The short stories collected in the volume are evocative of Bukowski at his best, when he was one of the premier short story writers still at the top of his talent. - Wikipedia Loneliness -- Bop Bop Against That Curtain -- You And Your Beer And How Great You Are -- No Way To Paradise -- Politics -- Love For $17.50 -- A Couple Of Winos -- Maja Thurup -- The Killers -- A Man -- Class -- Stop Staring At My Tits, Mister -- Something About A Viet Cong Flag -- You Can't Write A Love Story -- Remember Pearl Harbor -- Pittsburgh Phil And Co. -- Dr. Nazi -- Christ On Rollerskates -- A Shipping Clerk With A Red Nose -- The Devil Was Hot -- Guts -- Hit Man -- This Is What Killed Dylan Thomas -- No Neck And Bad As Hell -- The Way The Dead Love -- All The Assholes In The World And Mine -- Confessions Of A Man Insane Enough To Live With Beasts. Hardcover Issued In A Limited Ed. Of 300 Copies; Also Issued In 50 Handbound Copies With An Original Drawing By 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. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994). South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.