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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.



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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 *
Amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining * Sunday Times *

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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      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 *
      Amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining * Sunday Times *

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