Post Office (1971).
by Charles Bukowski.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0753518163
ISBN-13: 978-0753518168
Description:
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 race-track 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.
“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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).