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 author, Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office.
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
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About Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski, who died in 1994, was the legendary Californian writer who became famous for his semi-autobiographical books about low-life America. Novels such as Factotum and Post Office made this one-time bum, and lifelong alcoholic, rich and famous, and culminated in the making of Barfly, a major Hollywood movie based on his life starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
