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Post Office is the first novel written by American writer Charles Bukowski, published in 1971. The book is an autobiographical memoir of Bukowski's years working at the United States Postal Service. The film rights to the novel were sold in the early 1970s, but a film has not been made thus far.
By 1960, Bukowski had returned to the post office in Los Angeles and began work as a letter filing clerk, a position he held for more than a decade. In 1962, he was distraught over the death of Jane Cooney Baker, his first serious girlfriend.
"A cinema-verite portrait of Los Angeles poet Charles Bukowski. At age 53, Bukowski is enjoying his first major success (a San Francisco poetry reading nets him 400 dollars). Until 1969, Bukowski worked in the Post Office to support his writing, and the camera captures his reminiscences of those days as he walks around his Los Angeles neighborhood.
Henry Chinaski - Charles Bukowski's alter ego in the book Post Office; Moist von Lipwig - Going Postal (postmaster) Mr. McFeely - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood [3] Mrs. Goggins - Postman Pat (postmistress) Newman - Seinfeld [3] Willie Lumpkin - mailman of the Fantastic Four in Marvel Comics [1] Jheng Jhi-tao - Story Palace UPS Guy - Legally ...
Factotum (1975) is a picaresque novel by American author Charles Bukowski. [1] It is Bukowski’s second novel and a prequel to Post Office. [2] Plot.
If they get an oversized package, they drive 10 miles round trip to the Georgetown, Ohio, Post Office to claim it. To Klein, who is 82, the arrangement is a hassle he doesn’t need in retirement.
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In the late 1960s, the U.S. Post Office was actively prosecuting publishers for sending "obscene" publications through the mail. At the time of its publication, Bukowski was working as a clerk at the Post Office, having not yet made the transition to full-time writer.