Bukowski Post Office

The narrator of the post office is fantastic channeling bukowski s voice perfectly.

Bukowski post office. Post office introduces bukowski s autobiographical anti hero henry chinaski. In the author s own unique style he writes what is a semi autobiographical account based on his own experiences working at mundane jobs with the united states post office. Bukowski turned his inner devastation into a series of poems and stories lamenting her death.

Like in the morning it was morning and i was still alive. Like food is good for the nerves and the spirit. 9 people found this helpful.

What i found most remarkable about this short novel 162 pages is how enjoyable the author made me feel about such an apparent. It is a semi autobiographical story of henry chinaski a low life loser living a day to day existence revolving around heavy drinking gambling at the racetrack and as much sex as he can get. In los angeles california down and out barfly henry chinaski becomes a substitute mail carrier.

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. And then i did charles bukowski post office. Post office a novel charles bukowski pdf libcom.

It began as a mistake. In 1962 he was distraught over the death of jane cooney baker his first serious girlfriend. Flower fist and bestial wail 1960 poems and drawings 1962 longshot pomes for broke players 1962 run with the hunted 1962 it catches my heart in its hands 1963 crucifix in adeathhand 1965.

He quits for a while and lives on his winnings at the track then becomes a mail clerk. By 1960 bukowski had returned to the post office in los angeles where he began work as a letter filing clerk a position he held for more than a decade. A novel by charles bukowski.