--- product_id: 16083589 title: "Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life" price: "R$241" currency: BRL in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/16083589-run-with-the-hunted-a-charles-bukowski-reader-the-best store_origin: BR region: Brazil --- # Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life **Price:** R$241 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life - **How much does it cost?** R$241 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.br](https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/16083589-run-with-the-hunted-a-charles-bukowski-reader-the-best) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans. Review: Love Uncle Charles - I would probably start with post office, then go to his novel women, but not if you're a woman. This book is great in that it dips into all his great titles such as Ham on Rye and Hollywood and you really get the flavour of his writing arc from when he first recounted his early days, through his crazy,despairing and rambunctious later years and up to his more genial old age. Through it all the one adjective to describe him is sincere. I don't mean honest necessarily but he is often that, but he always expresses the essence of what he was going through. Sometimes that was hellish, sometimes creepy, sometime hilarious, at other times mad, sordid or poetic. Uncle Charles would have given you the low down on it all as he saw it and all in his unpretentious Hemingway-esque style. Not many writers have a movie made about their life (Barfly was about his not so alterego Hank), and Californication is a series where the lead character Hank has a life that reads from the great man's pages. The downside to the raw honesty that really makes him unique, think NO FILTER, is the seediness and angst at times. The quality of the writing, and also the repetitiveness of his picking up girls sometimes wears thin too. This may have come later but I'm sure an unhygienic, unattractive, broke and antisocial alco would not have been a big hit with the ladies. That's ok, it's almost like he's winking at us as he sets up a bar joke. His prolific output, and driving the typewriter under the influence would explain his more unpolished efforts. This just makes his poetic moments all the more startling by the contrast. A lot of the time though his writing breezes along. The beauty of this book is that as it's edited you're spared this downside. It's still heavy going at times so it's a perfect reader before bed, and as his adventures are all episodic you can pick it up and down almost anywhere. The greatest tribute I can give Uncle Charles is that he was one of three writers that inspired me to write my own novel Bex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The honesty I hopefully get from him. You learn about life reading BUK and even beyond the grave he's helped out. A few weeks ago a postie's motorbike got stuck in quicksand out the front of my house. It had been raining big and it wasn't his run. He was fuming and came up to use my phone. As he was tossing up whether to quit I suggested he read Post Office, and I'm sure that would have sealed the deal and pushed him in the right direction. From what he told me that day the place hasn't changed. Cheers you big genius lush, enjoy your high balls in the sky. You are the patron uncle of posties everywhere. Review: You Must Read this Book - You must read this. Bukowski is one of those writers I have heard about but never read. His work is described as gritty, realistic, and alcohol-driven. All that is true, but there is so much more here. This collection combines parts of his novels, poems, and other writings to form what is basically an autobiography. Since much of Bukowski's fiction concerned a writer who was a thinly veiled version of himself, the concept works very well. The prose portions here are incredibly well written, providing an utterly real picture of America from the late 1920s to the early 1990s (Bukowski died in 1994). He tells of his dysfunctional family, especially his father, his struggle with terrible skin problems, his happy discovery of alcohol, his life in Los Angeles, his travels to New Orleans and other places, and his many many relationships with women. There isn't a dull moment. At times, his story reminded me of some of Charles Willeford's works, particularly PICK UP, which share the same lowlife settings. But Bukowski goes far beyond Willeford's perennial irony to provide a much more realistic picture of his (or his character's) ups and downs. The prose is only part of the book, however. As good as it is, the poetry portions of the book are even better. Bukowski makes profound statements about life, death, art, politics, and whatever else is on his mind in a style that starts out very much like his prose before becoming more terse and more effective as the book goes on. I highlighted so many passages on my Kindle that I can't begin to quote them all. I will leave you to make the discoveries yourself. There are massive amounts of alcohol consumed in this book--enough to outdo even the most alcoholic noir detective. There are infidelities, betrayals, pain, suicidal thoughts--you name it, but the book is never depressing, because Bukowski is a true survivor. As the book proceeds, he becomes wiser and even more perceptive about those around him. I enjoyed this book as much as anything I have ever read. I wish I could give it more than five stars. Lastly, I have to say that this ebook, purchased from desertcart for a ridiculously low price, had the most typos of any etext I have ever read. It was obviously scanned in using OCR and no one every checked it, which is unbelievable. After a while I gave up reporting the errors to desertcart. I hope somebody will fix them. None of them is likely to confuse an attentive reader, but when "die" is turned into "the" or something else, it can be confusing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #75,829 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #69 in American Fiction Anthologies #642 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #1,544 in Short Stories (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 195 Reviews | ## Images ![Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71z18GnKuhL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love Uncle Charles *by W***N on March 7, 2014* I would probably start with post office, then go to his novel women, but not if you're a woman. This book is great in that it dips into all his great titles such as Ham on Rye and Hollywood and you really get the flavour of his writing arc from when he first recounted his early days, through his crazy,despairing and rambunctious later years and up to his more genial old age. Through it all the one adjective to describe him is sincere. I don't mean honest necessarily but he is often that, but he always expresses the essence of what he was going through. Sometimes that was hellish, sometimes creepy, sometime hilarious, at other times mad, sordid or poetic. Uncle Charles would have given you the low down on it all as he saw it and all in his unpretentious Hemingway-esque style. Not many writers have a movie made about their life (Barfly was about his not so alterego Hank), and Californication is a series where the lead character Hank has a life that reads from the great man's pages. The downside to the raw honesty that really makes him unique, think NO FILTER, is the seediness and angst at times. The quality of the writing, and also the repetitiveness of his picking up girls sometimes wears thin too. This may have come later but I'm sure an unhygienic, unattractive, broke and antisocial alco would not have been a big hit with the ladies. That's ok, it's almost like he's winking at us as he sets up a bar joke. His prolific output, and driving the typewriter under the influence would explain his more unpolished efforts. This just makes his poetic moments all the more startling by the contrast. A lot of the time though his writing breezes along. The beauty of this book is that as it's edited you're spared this downside. It's still heavy going at times so it's a perfect reader before bed, and as his adventures are all episodic you can pick it up and down almost anywhere. The greatest tribute I can give Uncle Charles is that he was one of three writers that inspired me to write my own novel Bex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The honesty I hopefully get from him. You learn about life reading BUK and even beyond the grave he's helped out. A few weeks ago a postie's motorbike got stuck in quicksand out the front of my house. It had been raining big and it wasn't his run. He was fuming and came up to use my phone. As he was tossing up whether to quit I suggested he read Post Office, and I'm sure that would have sealed the deal and pushed him in the right direction. From what he told me that day the place hasn't changed. Cheers you big genius lush, enjoy your high balls in the sky. You are the patron uncle of posties everywhere. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You Must Read this Book *by J***Y on August 31, 2013* You must read this. Bukowski is one of those writers I have heard about but never read. His work is described as gritty, realistic, and alcohol-driven. All that is true, but there is so much more here. This collection combines parts of his novels, poems, and other writings to form what is basically an autobiography. Since much of Bukowski's fiction concerned a writer who was a thinly veiled version of himself, the concept works very well. The prose portions here are incredibly well written, providing an utterly real picture of America from the late 1920s to the early 1990s (Bukowski died in 1994). He tells of his dysfunctional family, especially his father, his struggle with terrible skin problems, his happy discovery of alcohol, his life in Los Angeles, his travels to New Orleans and other places, and his many many relationships with women. There isn't a dull moment. At times, his story reminded me of some of Charles Willeford's works, particularly PICK UP, which share the same lowlife settings. But Bukowski goes far beyond Willeford's perennial irony to provide a much more realistic picture of his (or his character's) ups and downs. The prose is only part of the book, however. As good as it is, the poetry portions of the book are even better. Bukowski makes profound statements about life, death, art, politics, and whatever else is on his mind in a style that starts out very much like his prose before becoming more terse and more effective as the book goes on. I highlighted so many passages on my Kindle that I can't begin to quote them all. I will leave you to make the discoveries yourself. There are massive amounts of alcohol consumed in this book--enough to outdo even the most alcoholic noir detective. There are infidelities, betrayals, pain, suicidal thoughts--you name it, but the book is never depressing, because Bukowski is a true survivor. As the book proceeds, he becomes wiser and even more perceptive about those around him. I enjoyed this book as much as anything I have ever read. I wish I could give it more than five stars. Lastly, I have to say that this ebook, purchased from Amazon for a ridiculously low price, had the most typos of any etext I have ever read. It was obviously scanned in using OCR and no one every checked it, which is unbelievable. After a while I gave up reporting the errors to Amazon. I hope somebody will fix them. None of them is likely to confuse an attentive reader, but when "die" is turned into "the" or something else, it can be confusing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for a general taste *by M***A on May 20, 2013* I know a lot of people consider this book to be insufficient when it comes to Bukowski (specially due to the fact he was such a prolific writer), but I believe it's a decent, comprehensive introduction to his work. I really like the way the stories and poems have been presented in a chronological order, as they relate to Bukowski's own life. It was nice to re-read parts from certain books, put in a different context. And it's a good book to have on the go, because it's filled with poems and tales that can be read in any order you please... and trust me, there's enough material to keep you entertained for hours. I do wish certain stories and poems had been included, but honestly they were of my personal predilection and perhaps would not fit in the idea Mr. John Martin had for the book. In any case, as a Bukowski fan, I do recommend this for anyone who wants to get a taste of his writing, or one volume that contains a great variety of his work. It's surely the kind of work that, far from quenching your hunger for the Dirty Old Man's work, will leave you wanting for more! ## Frequently Bought Together - Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader - Love is a Dog From Hell - Post Office: A Novel --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/16083589-run-with-the-hunted-a-charles-bukowski-reader-the-best](https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/16083589-run-with-the-hunted-a-charles-bukowski-reader-the-best) --- *Product available on Desertcart Brazil* *Store origin: BR* *Last updated: 2026-06-20*