"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 Bukowsk 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 three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. 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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Soft cover. Etat : Good. Soft cover 1998 Thirty-seventh printing (stated) 196pp. Interior text clean. Endpapers and wraps have staining and wear. Reading copy. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1765146128049
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Vendeur : Furrowed Brow Books, IOBA, St. Paul, MN, Etats-Unis
paperback. Etat : Very Good. Bukowski, Charles : Post Office: A Novel. Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Eighth printing, of 1977. Trade paperback. Octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's matte color pictorial wrappers. Dark blue endpapers. [8], 9-115, [116] about the author. Condition notes: a very good, sound, somewhat worn copy. Moderate wear to wrappers, with sun-tanning to spine and on the edges of the wrappers; a small stain to front wrapper near head corn (see photo), and a tiny stain to tail rear wrapper. Former owner's name to verso front wrapper at seam; else unmarked; pages tanned but clean. A relatively early printing of the first novel by the "laureate of American lowlife"; Bukowski was born in the Weimar Republic and - in fact - did work for years for the US Post Office, before quitting to write this work. We personally inspect every book we offer. N° de réf. du vendeur 251117002
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