Post Office: A Novel - Couverture souple

Bukowski, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0850319927 ISBN 13 : 9780850319927

Editeur : Allison & Busby, 1988

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining'
Sunday Times

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.

Post Office was Charles Bukowski's debut novel, and has sold over a million copies in more than a dozen languages since its first publication in 1971. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his tough upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years.

'A laureate of American low life' Time

'Cunning, relentlessly jokey and sad' Observer

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Allison & Busby
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0850319927
• ISBN 13: 9780850319927
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160