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Post Office

Post Office

Summary

Henry Chinaski is a low life 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.

Reviews

  • An amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining account of a man trapped in a kin of Catch-23.
    Bernard Levin, Sunday Times

About the author

Charles Bukowski

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