The Postman Always Rings Twice

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  Charles Bukowski

  American poet and novelist of Los Angeles rooming houses, racetracks and the post office, who quit his job to write when a publisher offered him a hundred dollars a month. He came to Paris once, in September 1978, drank his way through a live television book programme and walked off the set — and French television has been replaying it ever since.

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  Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  The doctor of the Paris slums who wrote the century's blackest, funniest novel — and changed the sound of French prose.

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  Henry Miller

  The Brooklyn dropout who arrived in Paris broke at thirty-eight and wrote the exuberant, banned books that ended American censorship.

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