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Charles Bukowski - one-time bottom, long-time alcohol, and the writer of now-classic books such as for instance Postoffice, Factotum, and Ladies - rose from obscurity to become renowned. Their semiautobiographical publications about low-life America made him a cult figure and culminated in the building of Barfly, a significant Hollywood film-based on Bukowski's life. In this new resource, Howard Sounes has drawn on years of thorough study - including new interviews with almost all of Bukowski's friends, his family, and his many enthusiasts, in addition to unparalleled use of his personal letters and unpublished writing - to expose the remarkable true tale of the Dirty Old Man of National literature. Illustrated with over sixty never-before-published pictures, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life also contains original sketches by Bukowski and distinctive efforts by friends, including Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R.