Bukowski
Neeli Cherkovski. Steerforth Press, $18 (350pp) ISBN 978-1-883642-29-7
The 1991 biography of the late novelist and poet, now revised and in paper for the first time. (July)
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Reviewed on: 06/30/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
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