South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life
South of No North, by Charles Bukowski, is a collection of short stories. Bukowski started writing short stories twenty years
before he hit the poetry -- the bottle was in between and, seemingly, forever -- and his stories are haunting. You will find
where he started, in stories that include glimpses into his "lost" years when he was a drifting worker and bum. When he works
in the deseret carying railroad ties, you feel the slivers in his
gloveless hands, and you feel what it may have been that drove
him to all the rest. South of No North is his early best
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This
Book Blew me away..... He is the greatest poet of the centuary for me
personally...... He is the only writer I read everyday for the last 5
years. But his short stories, now that is another genre that I had no
idea till i started reading this book as to how good he was in the short
story medium ( I read only one story a day to saviour it ) It made me
realise that along with his Poems and Novels he is a champion in the
Short Story Department too.
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South
of No North is a collection of short stories as uneven and mercurial as
Charles Bukowski himself. I breezed through his six novels years ago
and find myself missing his voice as a narrator so I think I'll go
through his short story collections now. His work on
aggregate--sometimes bad, often great--inspires and entertains. The
stories here are no exception. Many are not memorable, but the
excellence of "The Devil Was Hot," "Guts," "A Shipping Clerk with a Red
Nose," and "This is What Killed Dylan Thomas" merit a 5-Star rating.
These tales are very humorous stories and full of life. They'll make you
laugh and admire the honesty of old Hank. A lot of the themes developed
are bare bones versions of plots that later appear in his novels. South
of No North is a must have for any fans of the Great Buk!