The Most Beautiful Woman in Town: And other Stories - Softcover

"Not since George Orwell has the condition of being down-and-out been so well recorded" (New York Times)

'One of those writers whom each new reader discovers with a transgressive thrill'The New Yorker

'Funny and sharp, observant, clever with details and honest' Times Literary Supplement

This collection of short stories propels the reader into the lowlife of America's underworld, full of drunks, bums and gamblers, where sex and violence are everywhere and the most beautiful woman in town drinks and fights.

Bukowski writes with brutal honesty and sardonic humour of the things he experienced in life; poverty, hard women and chronic hangovers.
Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known and most prolific writers. During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975) and Pulp (1994), all available from Virgin Books.