<p>"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author</p><p>"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter</p><p>Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.</p><p>With all of Charles Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, <em>Women</em>, the 1978 follow-up to<em> Post Office</em> and <em>Factotum</em>, is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.</p>