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With a new jacket and introduction for a new generation. Follows on from "Post Office", his first autobiographical novel.
Synopsis
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour.