Post Office by Charles Bukowski - ISBN: 9780753518168
Paperback
Lowlife, beer, and racetracks: a hilarious, lurid landmark in American literature.

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  • Paperback

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    1 June 2009

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Summary

NEW LOOK FOR THIS TIMELESS CULT CLASSIC WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NIALL GRIFFITHS

Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide.

The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary auth…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780753518168
ISBN-10:0753518163
Author:Charles Bukowski
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Imprint:Virgin Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Edition:Revised edition
Release Date:1 June 2009
Weight:128g
Dimensions:198mm x 127mm x 13mm
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Critics Review

An amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining account of a man trapped in a kind of Catch 23

An amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining account of a man trapped in a kind of Catch 23 * Sunday Times *Takes you by the shoulders and shakes you until your teeth rattle * The Times *Cunningly, relentlessly jokey and sad * Observer *One of the funniest books ever written * Uncut *Amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining * Sunday Times *Humour, wisdom and the elegance of simplicity come at you in equal measure * Bizarre *A laureate of American low life * Time *Cunning, relentlessly jokey and sad * Observer *

About The Author

Charles Bukowski

Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971) and Factotum (1975). He is one of America’s most distinctive writers and a voice for both the outsider and lowlife Americana.

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