![]() Most of them lived in nice houses and didn’t seem to work, and you wondered how they did it. “The streets were full of insane and dull people. ![]() ![]() Bukowski would follow it with five other novels (“ Factotum,” “ Women,” “ Ham On Rye,” “ Hollywood,” “ Pulp”), a screenplay (for the movie “Barfly”) and countless poems, short stories and essays. Bukowski agreed to these terms and then took Martin up on his suggestion that he write a novel, as they tend to sell better than poetry and short story collections. Publisher John Martin formed Black Sparrow Press in order to publish Bukowski’s work, and soon after other writers as well, and offered him $100 a month for life – what Bukowski said he need to live on, including money for child support – if he quit the post office and agreed to write full time. Post Office covers Bukowski’s life from around 1952 through 1955, when he resigned from the post office, to his return in ’58, then to his final resignation in ’69. Soon it takes a turn into the kind of “ Factotum” hell that Charles Bukowski fans know well, as it shows up later throughout his work. The novel begins, “It began as a mistake.” He hears from a fellow drunk that the post office hires carriers during the Christmas season to handle the extra mail load and at first it seems an easy gig. Bukowski’s alter ego, Henry Chinaski, starts as a substitute mail carrier. Charles Bukowskis debut novel introduces his alter ego Henry Chinaski. Bukowski s Beat Generation writing reflects his tough upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. The autobiographical book covers the years Bukowski spend working in the post office. Post Office Charles Bukowski 3.94 121,792 ratings5,457 reviews 'It began as a mistake.' By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Virgin, 1992 - American fiction - 160 pages. 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. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. ![]() “Post Office” was Charles Bukowski’s first novel, published by Black Sparrow Press in 1971. Charles Bukowski’s classic roman clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. If you purchase something through one of these links we will get a commission, which helps us maintain the site, at no extra cost to you. ![]()
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