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Title: A disappointing (sloppy, inaccurate) work.
Review: This book happens to devote two full pages describing Bukowski's friendship with writer Steve Richmond. There are, unfortunately, fifteen (15) errors.. gross material mistakes within the text of just these two pages. These include misquotations, mistitled publications, reported acts by myself and others which simply didn't happen, etc.If you don't give damn whether or not you are reading the truth about Charles Buk, then buy this book, because this novel disguised as a biography is infinity squared distant from the truth of Charles Bukowski.Luckily, an excellent Bukowski biography is coming down the pike: LOCKED IN THE ARMS OF A CRAZY LIFE by Howard Sounes.Neeli Cherkovski's WHITMAN'S WILD CHILDREN does include a fine chapter re Bukowski, but for whatever sad reason, Cherkovski's attempted full length Bukowski biography remains the phoniest book I've ever read, notwithstanding its lovely printjob.Steve RichmondFebruary, 1999
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