Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43658 in Books
• Published on: 1992-08-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

My first foray into Bukowski, leaves me begging for more.
This book of short stories is incredible. There is nothing else that I have read that is as incredibly honest, frank, simple yet so exceptionaly emotive. I would recomend this book to anybody. Strangely I was expecting this book to be depressive, but much on the contrary reading left me feeling much happier. True the book is not a fairy tale, or anything close, but yet with its transparency and clearness on how Henry Chinaski stumbles though life, it leaves you with a feeling that, sure life can be awful, but that makes you appreciate what you have so much.
A must have book.

I hope he was just kidding.
This was my first attempt to read Bukowski's work. I can't figure out what everyone has been raving about, but the ravers are surely all men. Bukowski had some issues when it came to women and it sure comes out in his stories.

Without doubt this is one of his strongest works.
South of No North was one of the first Bukowski works that I read and it was the one that reeled me in like a fish. A fantastic work of great scope and understanding. This book speaks to you in a way that few will. It speaks to every part of you - the mind, heart, soul, conscious, unconscious, etc. This is a must for anyone interested in a plain, honest treatment of human life with all of its peaks and valleys.