Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million have been sold worldwide.

The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author, Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office.

"An amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining account of a man trapped in a kind of Catch 23" - Sunday Times

"Takes you by the shoulders and shakes you until your teeth rattle" - The Times

"Cunningly, relentlessly jokey and sad" - Observer

"One of the funniest books ever written" - Uncut

"Amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining" - Sunday Times

Born in 1920, Charles Bukowski became one of America's best-known writers. During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975), Women (1979) and Pulp (1994) all available from Virgin Books.