{"product_id":"2940170209583","title":"Hot Water Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town ¿ a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton ¿ and depict the darkest parts of human existence.  Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  In the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art ¿ his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115105206512,"sku":"2940170209583","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170209583_p0.jpg?v=1763705024","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170209583","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}