Post Office Summary
Charles Bukowski

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Post Office Summary

Post Office, by Charles Bukowski, is the self-revelation of Henry ("Hank") Chinaski. Henry is a middle-aged alcoholic willing to buck any system, void of ambition, yet exhibiting superior intellect and reasoning. Having awakened from a terrible drunken spree, Henry looks back at a career that has broken him physically, and at the sexual and gambling adventures that have kept him going.

Henry ("Hank") Chinaski is a middle-aged alcoholic with an attitude...

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Charles Bukowski Biographies (4)

Charles Bukowski

3,600 words, approx. 13 pages

A prolific and seminal figure in underground literature, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) is best known for poetry and fiction in which he caustically indicts bourgeois society while celebrating the despe... Read more

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski

4,170 words, approx. 14 pages

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Charles Bukowski

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