One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good concerning the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a dialog together with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. Together with horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of ...
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Afterwards decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred ...