{"product_id":"pulp-charles-bukowskis-final-hardboiled-noir-comedy-lady-death-aliens-and-the-absurd-0876859260","title":"Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy - Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0876859260\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bukowski, Charles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this gritty noir satire demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.Bukowskis final novel is a surreal pastiche of the classic Mickey Spillane, Chandleresque private dick novel. The anti-hero protagonist, Nick Belane, is a lonely, middle-aged, egotistical, alcoholic private detective who is badly in need of some lucrative work, but what he gets is a series of increasingly strange assignments from a bizarre collection of clients.He is asked to track down the long-dead French classical author Celine and an elusive red sparrow in a surreal mystery that has him crossing paths with aliens, heavies and even Lady Death herself. All the while, Belane is convincing himself that hes still a white-hot detective and that nobody can take him for a ride, or indeed make him feel hes losing his mind.Pulp is essential fiction from Buk himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52191234359584,"sku":"NEW0876859260","price":12.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81VzmRIDIVL.jpg?v=1786823660","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/pulp-charles-bukowskis-final-hardboiled-noir-comedy-lady-death-aliens-and-the-absurd-0876859260","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}