{"product_id":"tales-of-ordinary-madness-by-charles-bukowski","title":"Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov, and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate and extreme - his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. His first work came from the 1960s Los Angeles underground press, and yet he became regarded as one of one of America's greatest poets and realist novelists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection of Buk's grimmest diaries gives an insight into the noir and brutal Los Angeles that Bukowski observed and lived so well. He was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover...tender, vicious...never the same. These are exceptional stories that came pounding out of his violent and depraved life - horrible and holy. You cannot listen to them and come away the same again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTales of Ordinary Madness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes iconic stories \"A .45 to Pay the Rent\" about drug dealing, fatherhood and love on the other side of the law, and \"The Great Zen Wedding\" in which Bukowski goes off the rails as best man at a wealthy Hollywood affair.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOBIE winner Will Patton (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRemember the Titans\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Good Wife\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArmageddon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) recreates Bukowski in his visceral prime, along with every eye-popping character in his life, each adversary, lover, and stranger in a lost city.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Spine Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51536775282969,"sku":"59609369","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8399\/1833\/files\/91rPqZDVkmL._SL1500.jpg?v=1760719918","url":"https:\/\/thespinebookshop.com\/products\/tales-of-ordinary-madness-by-charles-bukowski","provider":"The Spine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}