The Most Beautiful Woman in Town

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other stories

First edition cover
Author	Charles Bukowski
Language	English
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	City Lights Books
Publication date	1983
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	240 pp
ISBN	0-87286-156-2
OCLC	10071524
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3552.U4 M66 1983

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories is a collection of anecdotal short stories by American author Charles Bukowski. The stories are written in both the first and third-person, in Bukowski's trademark semi-autobiographical short prose style. In keeping with his other works, themes include: Los Angeles bar culture; alcoholism; gambling; sex and violence. However, many of the stories contain elements of fantasy and surrealism. The book was initially printed as Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.^[citation needed] The stories originally appeared in Open City, Nola Express, Knight, Adam, Adam Reader, Pix, The Berkeley Barb and Evergreen Review.

Contents

• Kid Stardust on the Porterhouse
• Life in a Texas Whorehouse
• Six Inches
• The Fuck Machine
• The Gut-Wringing Machine
• 3 Women
• 3 Chickens
• Ten Jack-Offs
• Twelve Flying Monkeys Who Won't Copulate Properly
• 25 Bums in Rags
• Non-Horseshit Horse Advice
• Another Horse Story
• The Birth, Life and Death of an Underground Newspaper
• Life and Death in the Charity Ward
• The Day We Talked About James Thurber
• All the Great Writers
• The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, Calif
• Trouble with a Battery
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• Politics is like Trying to Screw a Cat in the Ass
• My Big-Assed Mother
• A Lovely Love Affair
• All the Pussy We Want
• The Beginner
• The Fiend
• The Murder of Ramon Vasquez
• A Drinking Partner
• The White Beard
• A White Pussy

Trivia

• In the film The Rules of Attraction the book can be seen in the drawer of Sean Bateman's room.

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