{"product_id":"pulp","title":"Pulp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBukowski's final novel is a surreal pastiche of the classic Mickey Spillane, Chandleresque private dick novel. Nick Belane, is a lonely, middle-aged, egotistical, alcoholic private detective who is badly in need of some lucrative work, but what he gets is a series of increasingly strange assignments from a bizarre collection of clients. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is asked to track down the long-dead French classical author Celine and an elusive red sparrow. He encounters aliens, heavies and even Lady Death herself. All the while, Belane is convincing himself that he's still a white-hot detective and that nobody can take him for a ride, or indeed make him feel he's losing his mind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePulp \u003c\/em\u003eis essential fiction from Buk himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0876859260\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780876859261\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Bukowski, Charles, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2002)","offer_id":45660031189189,"sku":"9780876859261","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780876859261.jpg?v=1768916846","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/pulp","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}