Post Office
Paperback / softback
Main Details
| Title |
Post Office
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Charles Bukowski
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:176 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780753518168
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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| Audience | |
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| Edition |
Revised edition
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Ebury Publishing
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| Imprint |
Virgin Books
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| Publication Date |
2 April 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
ReviewsAn 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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