Books like How Late It Was, How Late
Sammy, a Glasgow ex-con, wakes up in a lane after a two-day drinking binge, gets into a fight with the police and comes round in a cell, blind.
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The Glass Canoe
Life inside the Southern Cross, a working-class pub in Sydney, told in short episodes by Meat Man, one of its regulars.
Trainspotting
Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, and Spud run together through heroin-era 1980s Leith in a novel written out in the Edinburgh that English-reading publishing had previously been allowed to leave out.
Shuggie Bain
In 1980s Glasgow, Shuggie, a gentle, different boy, devotes his childhood to saving his glamorous mother Agnes from the drinking that is destroying her, as poverty closes in around them.
The Rabbit Hutch
In the last summer of a decaying Indiana tenement called La Lapinière, a 19-year-old foster-care graduate and her three male housemates try to hold a life together.
Broken Glass
Broken Glass, a disgraced schoolteacher, is given a notebook by the owner of the Credit Gone West bar in Pointe-Noire and asked to record the stories of its drinkers, in one long unbroken sentence.
Young Mungo
A queer teenager in 1990s Glasgow falls for a Protestant boy, and the sectarian violence of the city mirrors the violence inside his home.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Linked stories of longshoremen, hustlers, transvestites, and strikers in 1950s Red Hook Brooklyn, told in unpunctuated bursts that broke American obscenity law and then the English sentence.
The Glorious Heresies
In Cork, Maureen, a woman in her sixties, kills an intruder with a holy stone, and her son Jimmy, the city's crime boss, calls in Tony Cusack, an alcoholic neighbour, to clean up.
Joe
Joe Ransom, a hard-drinking ex-convict who runs a crew poisoning trees for a timber company in north Mississippi, takes on a teenage boy from a drifter family and tries to protect him from his own father.
Post Office
Bukowski's alter ego takes a job at the post office and endures the soul-crushing tedium with alcohol, women, and horse racing.
Winter in the Blood
An unnamed young Blackfeet man drifts between his mother's ranch on the reservation and the bars of Montana towns, looking for the woman who took his rifle and for a reason to care.
Hot Water Music
Short stories of drunks, failed writers, gamblers and the women who put up with them, set in the bars, racetracks and cheap apartments of Bukowski's Los Angeles.