POST OFFICE

"IT BEGAN AS A MISTAKE." BY MIDDLE AGE, HENRY CHINASKI HAS LOST MORE THAN TWELVE YEARS OF HIS LIFE TO THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE. IN A WORLD WHERE HIS THREE TRUE, BITTER PLEASURES ARE WOMEN, BOOZE, AND RACETRACK BETTING, HE SOMEHOW DRAGS HIS HANGOVER OUT OF BED EVERY DAWN TO LUG WATERLOGGED MAILBAGS UP MUD-SOAKED MOUNTAINS, OUTSMART VICIOUS GUARD DOGS, AND PRAY TO SURVIVE THE DAY-TO-DAY TRIALS OF SADISTIC BOSSES AND CERTIFIABLE COWORKERS. THIS CLASSIC 1971 NOVEL--THE ONE THAT CATAPULTED ITS AUTHOR TO NATIONAL FAME--IS THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO THE GRIMLY HYSTERICAL WORLD OF LEGENDARY WRITER, POET, AND DIRTY OLD MAN CHARLES BUKOWSKI AND HIS FICTIONAL ALTER EGO, CHINASKI.