'In the morning, it was the morning and I was still alive.' Believe it or not but this sort of sums up Hank Chinaski in this terrific and funny book. In the final section of this book, Chinaski describes waking up from another binge. He's too stupefied to do much more than tweak the postal tyrants and subtly defy the bureaucratic insanity, as he pushes the empty fifths under the bed.

He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. Tomie dePaola the affable local author and. 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. But boozing Hank hardly notices through the haze of his hangover and the exhausting drudgery of work. Postal Service on Friday dedicated a new 'forever' stamp in honor children’s book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola. Bukowski - Post Office - Book Review 592 views 39 Dislike Share Save Jay The Author 2.37K subscribers Here is a book review about a book that helped me cope through hard. But the book also has a sad undertone, with Hank floating through life and letting good things slip away, such as women who make him happy or time with his baby daughter. POST OFFICE is a funny novel with frequent laugh-out-loud moments. In Los Angeles, California, down-and-out barfly Henry Chinaski becomes a substitute mail carrier he quits for a while and lives on his winnings at the track, then becomes a mail clerk. That's Hank Chinaski, the wily but nonchalant protagonist of the hilarious POST OFFICE, who is depressed by (but dependent on) a job in which '.all you moved was your right arm.' Post Office, Charles Bukowski Post Office is the first novel written by Charles Bukowski, published in 1971 when he was 50 years old.

Remember the smart but passive guy in your high school math class who did no work, attracted a certain kind of girl, always had a little money for beer, skipped school when it suited him, and didn't treat teachers as authority figures? Well, imagine that same guy 30 years later, working in the post office sticking mail.

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