6/2/2023 0 Comments Post office bukowski review![]() ![]() There's his trademark booze and trips to the racetrack and you even get to read how Chinaski's interest in classic music, seen in later novels, began. There is lots about women and Chinaski's troubled, unhealthy relationships that always end with him alone. This novel begins the usual Bukowski style. So he never tries to change anything, never fights but in an heroic stand also refuses to play, tries to bend the rules and the hell with it all! Chinaski knows he's a prisoner, a pawn of the system and while he knows how rotten the whole "game" is he also recognizes the rules are fixed, the loser is always the "little man" and nothing will ever change. He has no personal battle and he doesn't strive for anything but basic survival. ![]() He bets on horses and is a keen observer of human nature. Chinaski cares very little for anything other than cheap liquor and even cheaper women. The hero, or to be honest, anti-hero, loser and drunken star of the novel is Hank Chinaski and this is the story of his career in the United States Post Office in the 60's and 70's. Everything that is good about his writing is displayed here. "Post Office" is the first novel by the great Charles Bukowski. ![]()
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