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Post Office

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Post Office
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Charles Bukowski
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780753518168
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General
Edition Revised edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Ebury Publishing
Imprint Virgin Books
Publication Date 2 April 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 author, Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office.

Author Biography

During his lifetime 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.

Reviews

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 *