Post Office
Post OfficeCharles BukowskiHenry Chinaski, book 3
Characters in Post Office
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Henry Chinaski
Bukowski's hard-drinking alter ego, enduring years of postal drudgery.
Also in Ham on Rye, Factotum, Women, Hollywood
Supporting characters
Betty (Post Office)
A hard-drinking older widow Chinaski takes up with, modeled on Bukowski's real-life partner Jane Cooney Baker; she leaves him over his racetrack absences.
Joyce
A wealthy woman Chinaski marries after Betty leaves him, modeled on Bukowski's first wife Barbara Frye.
Fay
A free-spirited, activist-minded woman Chinaski takes up with later in the novel, and the mother of his daughter.
Minor characters
Marina Louise
The infant daughter born to Chinaski and Fay, named after Bukowski's own real-life daughter born in 1964.