Love Is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski All the stories are rewarding

All the stories are rewarding for their compassionate portrayal of love

the Christian Constantine and the pagan Julian

Alongside brutal depictions of violence and justice are jokes and deceptively slight

some of which are still with us today

Love Is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski All the stories are rewardingA classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty,