Ham on Rye (1982).
By Charles Bukowski.
Published by Ecco.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 006117758X
ISBN-13: 978-0061177583
Description:
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 Rye
offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's
coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.