This is one funny book with classic lines in every page. The best of all is how in a sad and ultimately lonely existence as Chinaski's, Bukowski is able to infuse so much humor and how well this sort of tragic comedy works.

There's his trademark booze and trips to the racetrack and you even get to read how Chinaski's interest in classic music, seen in later novels, began. There is lots about women and Chinaski's troubled, unhealthy relationships that always end with him alone. This novel begins the usual Bukowski style. So he never tries to change anything, never fights but in an heroic stand also refuses to play, tries to bend the rules and the hell with it all! Chinaski knows he's a prisoner, a pawn of the system and while he knows how rotten the whole 'game' is he also recognizes the rules are fixed, the loser is always the 'little man' and nothing will ever change. He has no personal battle and he doesn't strive for anything but basic survival. He bets on horses and is a keen observer of human nature. Chinaski cares very little for anything other than cheap liquor and even cheaper women. The hero, or to be honest, anti-hero, loser and drunken star of the novel is Hank Chinaski and this is the story of his career in the United States Post Office in the 60's and 70's. Everything that is good about his writing is displayed here.

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.'Post Office' is the first novel by the great Charles Bukowski. 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.

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel 'It began as a mistake.' By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Like a majority of Bukowski's works, this book was published simultaneously in both Hardcover and Softcover first editions by Black Sparrow Press.īook is in excellent condition Like new and visibly unread. Post Office by Charles Bukowski FIRST EDITION / NINTH PRINTING BLACK SPARROW PRESS

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