Hollywood: A Novel

Who is Hank Chinaski from Hollywood: A Novel and what is their importance?

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Hank Chinaski is the novel's main character, and a thinly veiled portrait of author, Charles Bukowski. The line between Buckowski and his main character is so thinly veiled that people have seen the novel as an autobiography.

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Hollywood: A Novel