Name: Hot Water Music
ISBN: 9780061970023

Charles Bukowski

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.

Hot Water Music

Joe Ross

Bukowski does not give a shit what you think of his writing. Well, that is not entirely true. You don't put as much of yourself into your characters unless you want people to think about you. Where he improves on the Beats in in his acceptance that the shit he often did was just simply boring and repetitive. Hence the absurd and occassionally outright impossible happenings he infuses his tales with. He was also a master of the short piece, a very underrated form of fiction.

Mohamed El Shahawy

There's some great stories here, the collection as whole might not be great, but I enjoyed it. what else matter??

Max Seidel

Lovro Oreskovic

Georgi Mitrev

Lee Mellor

Carol

Nick Chmura

Sam Spott

Stories deal with human sexuality, grief, the relationship between men and women, writers, death, drifters, and family relations.