Post Office

3.9 avg 143456 votes

About this book

Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.Post Office 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.“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

3.9 ★★★★☆ average of 4 sources · 143456 votes
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3.9/5 · 143456 readers · 195 pages · ≈ 3 h 37 m · Challenging

How long does it take to read Post Office?

About ≈ 3 h 37 m — 195 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mPost Office~3 h 37 m

How many pages is Post Office?

195 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320Post Office195

What genre is Post Office?

It sits on the Fiction shelves.

Is Post Office in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Where does Post Office take place?

It is set in Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles.

Who wrote Post Office?

Charles Bukowski (1619–1994).

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