Women

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"Women" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Bukowski that follows his hard-drinking alter ego Henry Chinaski through a series of raw, often chaotic relationships with various women.

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Women canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literaryWork
novel
author Charles Bukowski
containsElement autobiographical elements
explicit sexual content
countryOfOrigin United States
featuresAlterEgoOf Charles Bukowski
featuresCharacter Lydia Vance
Sara
Tanya
follows Factotum
Post Office
genre autobiographical novel
dirty realism
semi-autobiographical novel
transgressive fiction
hasAlterEgoCharacter Henry Chinaski
hasTheme aging
alcoholism
alienation
emotional detachment
failure of conventional romance
hedonism
literary fame
loneliness
male-female relationships
masculinity
self-destruction
sexual relationships
violence in relationships
inspiredBy Charles Bukowski's personal life
language English
literaryMovement underground literature
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
literaryStyle confessional
minimalist prose
mainCharacter Henry Chinaski
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person
originalPublisherLocation Santa Barbara, California
linked to: Santa Barbara
partOfSeries Henry Chinaski novels
protagonist Henry Chinaski
publicationYear 1978
publisher Black Sparrow Press
setting Los Angeles
tone cynical
darkly comic
raw

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