\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreviously uncollected pulp fiction by the 20th century American master.\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, \u003cI\u003eThe Bells Tolls for No One\u003c/I\u003e presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. An informative introduction by editor David Stephen Calonne provides historical context for these seemingly scandalous and chaotic tales, revealing the hidden hand of the master at the top of his form.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The uncollected gutbucket ramblings of the grand dirty old man of Los Angeles letters have been gathered in this characteristically filthy, funny compilation ... Bukowkski's gift was a sense for the raunchy absurdity of life, his writing a grumble that might turn into a belly laugh or a racking cough but that always throbbed with vital energy.\"\u0026#151;\u003cB\u003e\u003cI\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, \u003cB\u003eCharles Bukowski\u003c/B\u003e published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he would eventually publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose. He died of leukemia in San Pedro, California on March 9, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eDavid Stephen Calonne\u003c/B\u003e is the author of several books and has edited three previous collections of the uncollected work of Charles Bukowski for City Lights: \u003cI\u003eAbsence of the Hero\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003ePortions from a Wine-Stained Notebook\u003c/I\u003e, and \u003cI\u003eMore Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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