Post Office
  • Published: 1 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780753518168
  • Imprint: Virgin Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $28.99

Post Office

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1 Jun 2009
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31 Oct 2011
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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.

  • Published: 1 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780753518168
  • Imprint: Virgin Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $28.99
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Charles Bukowski

Born in 1920, Charles Bukowski became one of America's best-known writers. During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975), Women (1979) and Pulp (1994) all available from Virgin Books.

Also by Charles Bukowski

Tales of Ordinary Madness
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Factotum
New Poems Book One
New Poems Book Two
New Poems Book Three
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
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Praise for Post Office

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

Humour, wisdom and the elegance of simplicity come at you in equal measure

Bizarre

Amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining

Sunday Times

A laureate of American low life

Time

Cunning, relentlessly jokey and sad

Observer