Bukowski, Charles Post Office: A Novel ISBN 13: 9780861610273

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"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. 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. 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.

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Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

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"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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  • PublisherMelbourne Press
  • Publication date1980
  • ISBN 10 086161027X
  • ISBN 13 9780861610273
  • BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Meg Williams [Jacket design] (illustrator). Second UK Edition. First impression of the second UK edition, published in 1980 by Melbourne House. The first UK edition was published in 1974 by London Magazine Editions (LME) and both editions are uncommon. With the distinctive dustwrapper design by Meg Williams, which incorporates a black and white portrait of Charles Bukowski on the back panel. ***Near fine in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or c reases. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. Pages bright and clean. No reading lean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £6.25. No tears. No chips. No creasing. No fading. Dustwrapper clean and bright. Just a slight indentation to the front panel of the dustwrapper near the spine - hardly noticeable. ***224mm x138mm. 160 pages. ***'"Post Office" will not tell you anything about licking stamps or posting letters. Instead, it is a loosely autobiographical novel by the highly-acclaimed American poet and writer, Charles Bukowski. [Sartre and Genet have called him "the best poet in America"]. ***"Post Office" is his own starkly funny and magnificently honest account of the years he spent in a Los Angeles mailroom. ***Charles Bukowksi is not a pretty person. In fact, he's quite a rough-swearing, hard-drinking, battle-scarred individual. His chauvinistic thoughts about women would make any feminist bristle with indignation. He makes his home in the slum area of Los Angeles, where life is anything but sweet and gentle. ***Not a pretty person, no. And yet a fascinating, almost legendary man whose brutal wit would astound and delight you. ***"Post Office" is Charles Bukowski's amazing first novel, about "Herny Chiaski", the man who works in a Los Angeles mailroom.' ***Charles Bukowksi is a major contemporary American writer and poet, whose works have received much international acclaim and comment. ***He was born in Andernach, Germany, in 1920, and went to live in the United states when he was two years old. He was brought up in Los Angeles, where he still makes his home. ***He began writing in his early twenties, published his first collection of poems at the age of thirty-five, and has now published more than twenty books of poetry and prose. Hundreds of his stories and poems have appeared in magazines and newspapers. Post Office is his first published novel.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***This is a first impression of the second UK edition, extremely hard to find, especially in its original dustwrapper in such bright clean collectable condition. This edition was preceded in the UK by the London Magazine Editions publication in 1974, which is equally scarce. A virtually unread copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 7309z

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