Post Office is infamous barfly Charles Bukowski’s semi-autobiographical account of his time working as a mail courier.
In is his first novel Bukowski introduces us to his alter ego anti-hero protagonist Henry Chinaski as he takes the reader through his gambling, drinking and womanizing which he uses to counteract the numbness and boredom he feels working at the post office.
Told over the course of over a decade Post Office is filled with cynicism and despair but while Chinaski’s opinion on the world and its inhabitants is never optimistic it is usually very funny.
Post Office is a mixture black comedy, social analysis and tragedy and a great introduction to Charles Bukowski .
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