![]() ![]() ![]() The novel also bears similarity to some works by Dashiell Hammett and the name of character Nicky Belane rhymes suggestively with the name of author Mickey Spillane as well as Casablanca's main character Rick Blaine. A convoluted detective story about a hard-boiled private eye who solves his cases by waiting them out, Pulp evokes Raymond Chandler, an author who lived in Los Angeles and set stories there, as did Bukowski. He fell ill during the spring of 1993, only three-quarters of the way through Pulp. He began writing it in 1991 and encountered several problems during its creation. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. “Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. Book is tight, square and firm, corners sharp, rubbed. Original quarter black cloth over red illustrated paper-covered boards, Light edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Unable to control his legendary facility for death-dealing, the Finnish army just turned him loose in the woods and let him hunt first the invading Russians, then the unwelcome Germans. ![]()
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