{"product_id":"9781574231502","title":"Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski—America's \"Ultimate Outsider\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAmazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInsights into the author of \u003ci\u003eTales of Ordinary Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Dirty Old Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRun with the Hunted\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInsights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e Sheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048746893552,"sku":"9781574231502","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781574231502_p0.jpg?v=1763797447","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781574231502","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}