Post Office
«An amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining account of a man trapped in a kind of Catch 23»
Sunday Times
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide.
The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author, Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office.
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Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide.
The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author, Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Virgin Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 176
- ISBN
- 9780753518168
- Utgivelsesår
- 2009
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
During his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels
Post Office (1971) and
Factotum (1975). He is one of America's most distinctive writers and a voice for both the outsider and lowlife Americana.
Anmeldelser
«An amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining account of a man trapped in a kind of Catch 23»
Sunday Times
«Takes you by the shoulders and shakes you until your teeth rattle»
The Times
«Cunningly, relentlessly jokey and sad»
Observer
«One of the funniest books ever written»
Uncut
«Humour, wisdom and the elegance of simplicity come at you in equal measure»
Bizarre
«A laureate of American low life»
Time