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Loading... post office: A Novel (original 1971; edition 2007)by Charles Bukowski
Work InformationPost Office by Charles Bukowski (1971)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 從外觀看厚厚的一本,總覺得要讀很久。不過稍微翻一下內頁會發現圖比字多,認真看的話,並不需要花費太多時間。其對辦公室空間提出許多理想、幻想甚至是狂想,算是蠻有趣的一本書。 ( ) I'd never read any Bukowski and I was feeling a desperate need to read some. This is an odd book, surprisingly fun and yet filled with the drudgery of daily life, as the main character drones on through his job at the post office. It's the kind of book that stays with you - a high residue book. It'll keep you ruminating for quite a while. A pleasure to read despite gritty realism. I think I shall have to read more Bukowski! Poet-novelist Charles Bukowski describes not a story but a way of life in POST OFFICE, and a sour and drudgery-filled way it is. His narrator, the similarly-named Hank Chinaski, has a brisk, hard-boiled approach to narration, and his plotless story is far more engaging than it would be in most hands. What is revealed is Chinaski's life working for the post office, in his version a dusty, awful place filled with either walking corpses or power-addled scum. What light there is comes from Bukowski's way with words, the occasional surprising glimpses of sentiment, and Chinaski's laissez-faire attitude. Perhaps too plotless to be a classic novel, it is nonetheless a fast and entertaining read, though one to make the reader rethink any urges to work in the postal service. no reviews | add a review
"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 racetrack 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. No library descriptions found. |
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