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Post Office

by Charles Bukowski

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Publisher Comments:

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel — the one that catapulted its author to national fame — is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.

Synopsis:

This legendary Henry Chinaski novel is now available in a newly repackaged trade paperback edition, covering the period of the author's alter-ego from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969.

About the Author

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

Product Details

ISBN:
9780061177576
Author:
Bukowski, Charles
Publisher:
Ecco
Author:
by Charles Bukowski
Subject:
General
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Employees
Subject:
Postal service
Subject:
Los angeles (calif.)
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Publication Date:
March 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
196
Dimensions:
8.00x5.36x.53 in. .36 lbs.

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