"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. Tomie dePaola the affable local author and. 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. Postal Service on Friday dedicated a new 'forever' stamp in honor children’s book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola.
But boozing Hank hardly notices through the haze of his hangover and the exhausting drudgery of work. 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. Bukowski’s alter ego, Henry Chinaski, starts as a substitute mail carrier. The autobiographical book covers the years Bukowski spend working in the post office. 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 was Charles Bukowski’s first novel, published by Black Sparrow Press in 1971. 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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