<p><strong>Charles Bukowski's classic roman à clef, <em>Post Office</em>, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.</strong></p><p><em>Post Office </em>is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski's life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races.</p><p>"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates</p><p>"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter</p>