First published in English translation in 2016 by
And Other Stories
High Wycombe – Los Angeles
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Copyright © Lina Wolff 2012
First published as Bret Easton Ellis och de andra hundarna in 2012
by Albert Bonniers Förlag
English language translation copyright © Frank Perry 2016
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This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or places is entirely coincidental.
Excerpts from “5 Dollars” from Play the Piano Drunk / Like a Percussion Instrument / Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit by Charles Bukowski. Copyright © 1970, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 by Charles Bukowski. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
ISBN 9781908276643
eBook ISBN 9781908276650
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Contents
meat is cut as roses are cut
men die as dogs die
love dies like dogs die,
he said.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
‘5 dollars’