Chinaski's last two novels, which evoke her past and skin Hollywood.

This book brings together the last two of the five novels that Bukowski dedicated to his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, whom he portrays at very different times. The Path of the Loser addresses his childhood, adolescence and early youth in a period that covers the Depression and the Second World War, while Hollywood takes us to the time when Chinaski makes his first steps as a Hollywood screenwriter when a crazy director insists on take their stories to the cinema.

Two novels by Bukowski in his purest form: radical, wild, loaded with sex and alcohol, and with that poetic halo that almost imperceptibly surrounds his very unique literary universe.

"Obscene and lyrical at the same time, sometimes hilarious while remaining abysmally bleak" (San Francisco Chronicle).

"Bukowski writes like a late Céline, a mad savant who speaks straight from the gut about the beauty and futility of life" (Publishers Weekly).