Love Is a Dog from Hell (Ecco) 4th nonfiction In the summer of 1974

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Love Is a Dog from Hell (Ecco) 4th nonfiction In the summer of 1974A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty,