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Charles Bukowski, the son of an American soldier and a German mother, was born on 16 August 1920, in Andernacht, Germany. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1922. he attended Los Angeles City College, where he took journalism classes, but abandoned in 1941 to travel across America and made a living out of small jobs, like lift operator, truck driver, worker in a dog food factory etc. In 1944 he published his first story in Story magazine. Same year, he returned to Los Angels, where he met Janet Cooney Baker, whom he lived with for 10 years. In 1955 he was admitted to thee hospital with an alcohol-induced bleeding ulcer.

After a short marriage with Barbara Frye, a rich editor of a small poetry magazine, Bukowski took a job as a post office clerk. In 1955 he started writing poetry, publishing a volume almost every year. His first prose volume, All Assholes in the World and Mine appeared in 1962. His columns The Notes of a Dirty Old Man, which appeared in Open city and Los Angeles Free press were collected in a book, in 1969. Bukowski left his job at the post office in 1970, after John Martin from Black Sparrow Press offered him 100 dollars a month to continue writing. He will then publish several short stories volumes: Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972), Bring Me Your Love and Hot Water Music (1983), novels: Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975), Ham On Rye (1982), Hollywood (1989), Pulp (1994). His last years brought him success: he bought a pool house, a BMW and a computer. He died in March 1994 in a hospital in San Pedro, California, after a year fighting leukemia.

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	Title: Cea mai frumoasa femeie din oras si alte povestiri Price: 39.99 LEI Publisher: RAO Category: Stories, tales, sketches, short stories ISBN: 973-103-679-3 Stock estimation: 5	Details
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	Title: Femei Price: 16.95 LEI Publisher: POLIROM Category: Universal literature ISBN: 973-46-2400-3 Stock estimation: 10	Details
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	Title: Povesti despre nebunia obisnuita Price: 39.99 LEI Publisher: RAO Category: Universal literature ISBN: 973-576-850-X Stock estimation: 3	Details
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	Title: Sunca pe paine Price: 32.95 LEI Publisher: POLIROM Category: Universal literature ISBN: 973-46-2203-0 Stock estimation: 6	Details
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Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, to a German-American family. He studies at Cornell University, Carnegie Institute and the University of Chicago. In 1942 he enlists in the United States Army. In 1944, after the battle of the Bulge he becomes a war prisoner at Dresden, where less than two months later he witnesses the fire bombing of Dresden, in February 1945. He was awarded a Purple Heart, one of the most important American military decorations. In 1946 he becomes a reporter for the Chicago News Agency, and between 1947 and 1950 he worked in public relations for General Electric. In 1950 he publishes his first story, the next year he moves in Princeton, Massachusetts, dedicating his life to writing.

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