Fante Bukowski Three: A Perfect Failure

Fante Bukowski Three: A Perfect Failure by Noah Van Sciver

Although this is the last book of a trilogy, I found that it reads well without any knowledge of the previous two works. The three have been collected into a single volume, The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski.

Fante Bukowski is the name Kelly Perkins has taken as a poet trying to make it in the art subculture of Columbus Ohio. His only friends are aspiring performance artist Norma Lee and a local prostitute. Seeming to fail at everything he tries to do, his life itself is his only success, captured by the genius of Noah Van Skiver in the pages of this book.