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"It started as an error." By middle-age, Henry Chinaski has dropped significantly more than twelve years of his life for the U.S. Postal Service. In a global where his three accurate, sour joys are girls, liquor, and racetrack gambling, he somehow drags his hangover out-of sleep every beginning to carry waterlogged mailbags up dirt-soaked hills, outsmart bad guard dogs, and hope to endure the day-to-day tests of rude employers and certifiable colleagues. This traditional 1971 novel—the one which launched its creator to nationwide fame—is an ideal introduction for the grimly hysterical world of renowned poet, writer, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter-ego, Chinaski.