Post Office

ISBN-13:	9780061177576
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	07/29/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	32,436
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.47(d)

Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races.“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter