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The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship, Charles Bukowski ; illustrated by Robert Crumb

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The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship, Charles Bukowski ; illustrated by Robert Crumb

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship

Oclc number

38430377

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Charles Bukowski ; illustrated by Robert Crumb

Summary

Journals, with illustrations by Robert Crumb. Raw, iconoclastic, by turns rueful and hilarious, these last journals by Charles Bukowski have found their perfect match: the brilliant, outrageous comic art of Robert Crumb who has provided a portrait of the author plus twelve striking full-page drawings illustrating select passages from the text. Beginning in August 1991, these journals alternate between generous accounts of his gambling jaunts and the bizarre intrusions of fame: the interviewers, Hollywood glitterati, TV producers -- odd counterpoints to "the racetrack crowd ... the world brought down to size, life grinding against death and losing." Disarmingly candid, and salted with a particularly wry and gritty wisdom

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