Post Office Bukowski

Post office charles bukowski post office is the first novel written by charles bukowski published in 1971 when he was 50 years old.

Post office bukowski. Like in the morning it was morning and i was still alive. Free download or read online post office pdf epub book. It covers the period of bukowski s life from about 1952 to his resignation from the united states postal service three years later to his return in 1958 and then to his final resignation in 1969.

Maybe i ll write a novel i thought. Charles bukowski post office. And then i did charles bukowski post office.

Post office is bukowski s first novel and sets the style for his later books. 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. Bukowski turned his inner devastation into a series of poems and stories lamenting her death.

He had published approximately twenty books of poems and short stories during the 1960 s with his hero henry. A novel by charles bukowski. He quits for a while and lives on his winnings at the track then becomes a mail clerk.

It became one of his best selling works. It was christmas season and i learned from the drunk up on the hill who did the trick every christmas that they would hire damned near anybody and so i went and the next thing i knew i had this leather sack on my back and was hiking around at my leisure. The main characters of this fiction classics story are henry chinaski.

Excerpt from post office. In los angeles california down and out barfly henry chinaski becomes a substitute mail carrier. Post office introduces bukowski s autobiographical anti hero henry chinaski.