Ham on Rye

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In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Ryeoffers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780876855577
ISBN10 0876855575
Series/Work OL50453W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Ecco
Pages 283
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

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