Charles Bukowski - Factotum

A beer, a pickup. Another drink, another woman.

Henry Chinaski, a young misfit, lonely and hopelessly drunk, drifts through World War II-era America, jumping from city to city, job to job — each one more degrading than the last — just to fund his nights of booze and women. As he sinks deeper into a spiral of vice, he clings to (or postpones) the dream of becoming a writer. Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter ego, is the perfect embodiment of a factotum — a jack-of-all-trades, a gofer — as fickle and volatile as his creator is enduring. Adventurous and obscene, funny and desperate, vulgar yet somehow lyrical, Factotum is Charles Bukowski’s second novel, and here, published in Portugal for the first time. A kind of portrait of the artist as a young man, it stands as one of the author’s most powerful and unforgettable works.