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"The brevity of the pieces collected here, some no more than two or three pages, suit Bukowski well. … Best to think of his work as a series of dirty Road Runner cartoons in which Bukowski is the coyote taking one damn kick in the pants—front- and backside—after another. At its worst (the hijack fantasy “Fly the Friendly Skies”), Bukowski’s sensibility is ugly and coarse. But when he is swinging, there is a companionable ease to his blunt, profane vernacular. Bukowski’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."—Kirkus Reviews“Bukowski’s world is hostile, full of runaway dysfunction, and populated by alcoholics, gamblers, adulterers, and abusers, all with few, if any, redeeming qualities ... It is Bukowski’s embrace of this world, his insistence on its validity if not its value, that makes him unique ... Bukowski can be honest and direct, and he is capable of embedding meaningful observations in the most sordid of stories."—Publishers WeeklyBukowski’s The Bell Tolls for No One, recently released in a comic-book-like paperback, follows the hardboiled genre bent that reached its surreal apotheosis in his final novel, Pulp. The obvious influence is to Hemingway—see: the title—but perhaps more interestingly, the editor David Stephen Calonne notes Bukowski’s debt to the crime writer James M. Cain, who had also, unbeknownst to me, shaped the style of Camus’s The Stranger. The book includes some of Bukowski’s roughly drawn illustrations, which fall somewhere close to pornographic Ziggy or adult-themed New Yorker cartoons. One features an asthmatic customer at an adult bookstore asking the cashier to inflate his blow-up doll for him; another shows an expressionistically drawn party girl surrounded by gawking men with the caption 'God, a woman could get bored.' The subject matter is a more amplified version of the usual Bukowski fare—stalwart, sleazebag protagonists; spectral, deathly women with emphatically described upper legs. As always, the most one can hope for in Bukowski’s universe is 'a grim yet comfortable isolation.'"—Casey Henry, The Paris Review"Like Robert Crumb, whose art appears on the cover of The Bell Tolls For No One, Charles Bukowski represents a kind of brazenly counterculture spirit that holds in contempt anything that represents the Establishment. Read in this light, this newest compilation can be viewed as more than the self-admitted 'notes of a dirty old man,' but as the further works of an iconoclast who, much like the underground comics artists and punk rock bands of the late ‘70s, waged war against all that was supposedly ‘decent' and conventional for the sake of getting at the grit of human experience.”—ZYZZYVAThese are tales from the lower class and underclass, in all their glorious craziness and absurdity. It’s not pretty, and yet, somehow, there is joy in reading these stories, and somehow too, Bukowski ends up being a good buddhist, finding the larger beauty in these dismal lives … [For those] who already love Buk, this book will leave content, drunk, smiles on our faces.”—Entropy Magazine"The brevity of the pieces collected here, some no more than two or three pages, suit Bukowski well. … Best to think of his work as a series of dirty Road Runner cartoons in which Bukowski is the coyote taking one damn kick in the pants―front- and backside―after another. At its worst (the hijack fantasy “Fly the Friendly Skies”), Bukowski’s sensibility is ugly and coarse. But when he is swinging, there is a companionable ease to his blunt, profane vernacular. Bukowski’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."―Kirkus Reviews“Bukowski’s world is hostile, full of runaway dysfunction, and populated by alcoholics, gamblers, adulterers, and abusers, all with few, if any, redeeming qualities ... It is Bukowski’s embrace of this world, his insistence on its validity if not its value, that makes him unique ... Bukowski can be honest and direct, and he is capable of embedding meaningful observations in the most sordid of stories."―Publishers WeeklyBukowski’s The Bell Tolls for No One, recently released in a comic-book-like paperback, follows the hardboiled genre bent that reached its surreal apotheosis in his final novel, Pulp. The obvious influence is to Hemingway―see: the title―but perhaps more interestingly, the editor David Stephen Calonne notes Bukowski’s debt to the crime writer James M. Cain, who had also, unbeknownst to me, shaped the style of Camus’s The Stranger. The book includes some of Bukowski’s roughly drawn illustrations, which fall somewhere close to pornographic Ziggy or adult-themed New Yorker cartoons. One features an asthmatic customer at an adult bookstore asking the cashier to inflate his blow-up doll for him; another shows an expressionistically drawn party girl surrounded by gawking men with the caption 'God, a woman could get bored.' The subject matter is a more amplified version of the usual Bukowski fare―stalwart, sleazebag protagonists; spectral, deathly women with emphatically described upper legs. As always, the most one can hope for in Bukowski’s universe is 'a grim yet comfortable isolation.'"―Casey Henry, The Paris Review"Like Robert Crumb, whose art appears on the cover of The Bell Tolls For No One, Charles Bukowski represents a kind of brazenly counterculture spirit that holds in contempt anything that represents the Establishment. Read in this light, this newest compilation can be viewed as more than the self-admitted 'notes of a dirty old man,' but as the further works of an iconoclast who, much like the underground comics artists and punk rock bands of the late ‘70s, waged war against all that was supposedly ‘decent' and conventional for the sake of getting at the grit of human experience.”—ZYZZYVAThese are tales from the lower class and underclass, in all their glorious craziness and absurdity. It’s not pretty, and yet, somehow, there is joy in reading these stories, and somehow too, Bukowski ends up being a good buddhist, finding the larger beauty in these dismal lives … [For those] who already love Buk, this book will leave content, drunk, smiles on our faces.”―Entropy Magazine

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About the Author

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.Bukowski 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 went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (Black Sparrow, 1994), Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.David Stephen Calonne was born in Los Angeles in 1953. He earned a B.A. in Ancient Greek from UCLA and a doctorate in English at the University of Texas at Austin where he wrote his dissertation on the works of William Saroyan. He has written several other books on writers including Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski. A new critical study of Miller will appear from Reaktion Press in London in September of 2014. He is the editor of three volumes of Bukowski's uncollected prose for City Lights. He has lectured in Paris, at Columbia University, Penn, Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford.

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Product details

Paperback: 305 pages

Publisher: City Lights Publishers; First Edition edition (July 28, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0872866823

ISBN-13: 978-0872866829

Product Dimensions:

3 x 1 x 5 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.4 out of 5 stars

8 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

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All right, first of all, only two stories in The Bell Tolls for No One were previously unpublished, "A Kind, Understanding Face," and "Flying Is the Safest Way to Travel," other than that, there's nothing new or unknown in the book. But hold on - don't let that dissuade you, because unless you're a hard core Bukowski periodicals collector, pretty much everything in here is going to be new to you.I am definitely not a Bukowski periodicals collector, but I do have, or have seen, a few of these stories before. Maybe 5 of the 45 or so in the book. But even at 45:5 I'm still an 89% winner, and I'll take those odds any day when it comes to Bukowski. The bulk of the stories are from the L.A. Free Press during the particularly fertile and wonderful Bukowski period of 1972 to 1975, so if you like the mid-70s work you're going to like the book. If you don't know one Bukowski writing period from another, you're still going to like the book.I can't help but compare this to On Writing since they were published essentially at the same time. I started reading The Bell Tolls and then On Writing came in, so I set The Bell Tolls aside to read the letters. I like reading Bukowski letters, but at the risk of heresy I might say, enough already. The first Black Sparrow letters collection was an incredible revelation. Having so many letters in one place, it was beautiful. Then came the second volume and that was more of a good thing. But then we got to things like the Martinelli letters and everything came to a screeching halt. But it's been a few years, so I was looking forward to another letters book. And it was a'ight, you know. I didn't hate it, but it was repetitive - as Bukowski letters always have been - and at the end of it I felt nothing. It wasn't an exciting read, but not because the book was no good, just because, like I said, enough already.Which brings us to The Bell Tolls, and I have to say that City Lights has really done something that should be recognized and applauded and encouraged in continuing to publish Bukowski short stories and other bits that can't be jammed down either the poetry or novel funnel. Without City Lights all we would have are a couple of good-but-sanitized Black Sparrow short story collections, we wouldn't have any of the messy madness that flows through the City Lights collections, all the way from Tales Of Ordinary Madness (available these days as two volumes: "The Most Beautiful Woman In Town And Other Stories" and "Tales Of Ordinary Madness") to this new collection.And hats off to David Calonne who has compiled and edited all of the recent City Lights collections in a no-nonsense (and chronological!) way.

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It doesn't matter when the Bukowski stories were written, they all are true to his style.This book is excellent bedtime and bathroom reading.

Like most Bukowski, I got through this fairly quickly. He's an easy read. This one was no different. You can see the bones of some of the content that made his full length novels, particularly Women.Unfortunately though, like much of his posthumous output this one is for hardcore fans only. If you were to recommend Bukowski to newcomers, you'd point them in the direction of his early 1970's era work.

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Chances are that people have very specific opinions on Charles Bukowski and his writing. I appreciate that and will not dissuade someone from their opinion. And if you haven't formed an opinion yet, the collection of stories in The Bell Tolls for No One provides a variety of his writing to educate you.An interesting collection of Bukowski's stories woven together, pulling from overly sexed stories and some darker, more depressing or contemplative narratives. It's reminiscent of a horny, dirty old man and the understated, simplistic yet beautiful writing style of Ernest Hemingway. There is plenty of sex, humor, and reflections on relationships throughout this collection. Many of the stories included seem overly familiar, and almost repetitive, as, in Bukowski fashion, he reworks a basic narrative into something a little different.Toward the beginning of the collection, I found it difficult to see a theme for the collection, but it soon became apparent that the theme would be no more than the sex and outlandish ideas that are prevalent in many of Bukowski's writings. The way in which he mixes reality with fantasy creates something grandiose and can leave readers pondering, searching to find a meaning or truth applicable to life.

Totally unnecessary and unfit for human consumption. This was Bukowski at his absolute worst. It was nothing but short stories about drugs, booze and nasty sex with humans and aliens. There was even a cameo with Adolf Hitler creating a master race of fart monsters. Of course I loved every second of this book but would only recommend it to the sickest of friends who like me, lean towards misanthropy.

Very much enjoyed. his prose is a little raw on a few stories, but some good quotes in there for sure. A few stories re-hashed from his novels.

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