![]() ![]() Henry returns to Los Angeles and Fate introduces him to an eccentric millionaire who needs the services of a librettist. While there, he achieves his first literary triumph, selling a short story to a prestigious magazine. Louis in the dead of winter, feeling depressed, but again finds relative happiness among friendly people. There, in a crowded bar, Henry washes Venetian blinds, unexpectedly makes friends, and demonstrates generosity with his modest earnings. ![]() He quits one job and another that exhausts him physically, and moves to Philadelphia. Henry escapes to New York City, which he hates intensely. ![]() Henry moves to a rooming house, where a prostitute viciously rapes him. Life with his parents instantly goes bad as he goes drinking and lands in jail. He abandons that job during a stopover in his hometown, Los Angeles. He quickly goes through a job and catches a westbound train as part of a section gang. This is unlikely, as Henry likes his wine, dislikes the humdrum existence of a paying job and drifts along mildly suicidal and solitary. ![]() Henry Chinaski arrives in New Orleans, depressed, hoping a new city will make a difference. Factotum by Charles Bukowski has Henry Chinaski telling the story of how, in a perennial alcoholic fog, he drifts from city to city, trying and discarding jobs and women. ![]()
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