Post Office

<p><strong>Charles Bukowski's classic roman à clef <em>Post Office</em> captures the despair drudgery and happy dissolution of his alter ego Henry Chinaski as he enters middle age.</strong></p><p><em>Post Office </em>is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski's life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969 interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races.</p><p>The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.--Joyce Carol Oates</p><p>He brought everybody down to earth even the angels.--Leonard Cohen songwriter</p>