Charles Bukowski
Writer
August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994
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Post Office
By Charles Bukowski.
Paperback.
Published in 1971.
ISBN-10: 0753518163
ISBN-13: 978-0753518168
Description:
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 race-track 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.
“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).
Credits:
Books:
A Bukowski
Sampler (1988); Absence of the Hero (2010); All the Assholes in the World and
Mine (1966); At Terror Street And Agony Way (1968); Barfly (1983); Beerspit
Night and Cursing (2001); Betting on the Muse (1996); Bone Palace Ballet (1997);
Bring Me Your Love (1983); Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974); Cold
Dogs In The Courtyard (1965); Come On In! (2006); Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965);
Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981); Factotum (1975); Fire Station (1970); First
Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Ham
on Rye (1982); Hollywood (1989); Hot Water Music (1983); In the Shadow of the
Rose (1991); Living On Luck (1995); Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977); Mockingbird
Wish Me Luck (1972); Mondo Barbie (1993); Mondo Elvis (1994); Mondo James Dean (1996);
Mondo Marilyn (1995); Mondo Marilyn (1995); More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011);
New Poems Book Four (2003); New Poems Book One (2003); New Poems Book Three (2003);
New Poems Book Two (2003); Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969); On Cats (2015); On
Drinking (2019); On Love (2016); On Writing (2015); Open All Night (2000); Play
the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a
Bit (1979); Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window (1974); Portions
from a Wine-Stained Notebook (2008); Post Office (1971); Pulp (1994); Reach for
the Sun (1999); Run With the Hunted (1962); Screams from the Balcony (1993); Selected
Letters Volume 1: 1958-1965 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970 (2004);
Selected Letters Volume 3: 1971-1986 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 4:
1987-1994 (2005); Septuagenarian Stew (1990); Shakespeare Never Did This (1979);
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 1 (2002);
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 2 (2002);
Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005); South of No North (1973); Storm for the Living
and the Dead (2017); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972); Tales of Ordinary
Madness (1983); The Bell Tolls for No One (2015); The Bukowski / Purdy Letters (1984);
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998); The
Continual Condition (2009); The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969);
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain (2003); The Last Night of the Earth
Poems (1992); The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing
(2018); The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983); The Most
Beautiful Woman in Town (2013); The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001); The
People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007); The Pleasures of the Damned (2007); The
Portable Sixties Reader (2003); The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988); There's No
Business (1984); War All the Time (1984); What Matters Most is How Well You
Walk Through the Fire (1999); Women (1978); Writing Los Angeles (2002); You Get
So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (1986).
Movies and
television:
900
Pounds (1987); A .45 to Pay The Rent (2010); A Man (2005); Alone with Everybody
(2016); Amor por menos (1994); An Evil Town (1995); Apostrophes (1978); Apporte-moi
ton amour (2002); Artbound (2014); Barfly (1987); Bluebird (2022); Breakfast
with Bukowski (2011); Bring Me Your Love (2000); Broken-Mirror Music (2001); Bukowski
(1973 / 2023); Bukowski at Bellevue (1995); Bukowski: Born into This (2003); BXLx24
(2011); Charles Bukowski's Nirvana (2013); Cinéma cinémas (1982); Code Name:
Arabesque / The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985); Crazy Love (1987); Death Is
Smoking My Cigars (2021); Dr Nazi (2011); Droit de réponse: l'esprit de
contradiction (1982); Eddie and Eve (2021); Encore une nuit de merde dans cette
ville pourrie (2008); Factotum (2005); Fan des années 80 (2012); Figure (2017);
Frozen Food Section (2005); Fuck the Forest (2013); Functioning on Zero: Robert
Dean Live from the Lost Well (2020); Girl on the Escalator (2016); Gunnar Goes
Comfortable (2003); Guts (1991); Hit Man (2014); Horseshoe (1998); Il falso
bugiardo (2008); Ioana Dobroiu: The Night Kept Coming on and There Was Nothing
I Could Do About It (2018); Jukebox: From Edison to Ipod (2007); Kasabanin En
Güzel Kizi (2018); La pétaudière de Gontran H (2024); Lonely at the Top (1993);
Loren Cass (2006); Love for $17.50 (1998); Love Is a Dog from Hell (2014); Love
Lasts Three Years (2011); Love Pig (1990); Lune froide (1988 / 1991); Ma langue
dans ta poche (2016); Mask (2011); Mermaid of Venice (2011); Metamorphosis
(2022); My Old Man (2004); Nedgång och Fall (2009); Nice Guy Blues (2007); No
Leaders Please (2021); Nothing Else to Do (2016); Opowiesc o ordynarnym
szalenstwie (1987); Paradise Now, Apocalypse Later / The Laughing Heart (2017);
Personenbeschreibung (1982); Pink & Tender (2007); Piss (2018); Poetry in
Motion (1982 / 2020); Resiliencia (2020); Run to the Sea (2014); Sieh an, sieh
an (1985); Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs (2015); Småfysen (2022); Somebody
to Love (1994); Son of Satan (2003); Supervan (1977); Sve Zene Se Zovu Kiki (1991);
Syn Szatana (2008); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981); The Best Hotel on Skid
Row (1990); The Big Pot Game (2013); The Blanket (1994); The Bottle (2019); The
Crossing Guard (1995); The Devil Was Hot (2010); The Icecream People (2022); The
Killers (1984); The Last Straw (2008); The Laughing Heart (2012); The Living
Room Festival (1995–1999); The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (2000); The Midnight
Show (2012); The Pleasures of the Damned (2024); The Strangest Thing Just
Happened (2015); The Suicide (2006); The Works III (1994); There's Gonna Be a
God Damn Riot in Here (2008); Vessel (2015); Warm Face/Cold Place (2015); Welcome
to the Basement (2015); You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski (2016).
