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The Cartier Project
by
Miha Mazzini (Goodreads Author)
Tragedy nearly befalls a dismal Yugoslavian foundry town when Egon, romance writer extraordinaire and tireless bon vivant, discovers he'ss used up his Cartier perfume. A man will do anything for his perfume, even if it means cheating a young Gypsy girl of her Playboy, blackmailing a lascivious preacher, publishing an atrocious poet, and conspiring with a band of uncouth co...more
Paperback, 216 pages
Published
January 15th 2005
by Scala House Publishers
(first published 1987)
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an alcoholic writer of very successful romance novels is running out of perfume in a backwater Slovenian industrial town. plays it a little fast and loose at the end, but highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys O'Hara, Fante, etc.. there's a character called Poet and another called Hippie.
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It's been a long time since I read any Bukowski, but it's good that this book mentions him by name early on, because the style is clearly an homage to his alcohol-soaked tales. This kind of writing has a different appeal to me in middle age than it did as a teenager - it's easier now to absorb cynicism than to romanticize fighting and boozing. It still serves to highlight the toughness and paradox inherent in life, and illustrate the strange contrasts between desire and self-abuse, or a bottle o...more
feels like listening to a favorite old album.
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my dad lent me this book, and i now kind of think hes a bit of a perv
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