Ham on Rye
A Novel
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4.3 • 299 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher 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.
Customer Reviews
Hard-Hitting Realism
The author has a unique, entertaining way of exploring the mundane. Also timely sense of humor. Entertaining read.
A hot mess of depression and self indulgence
This reads as a 12 yr olds fantasy, be a big macho man that drinks and chases women. So overrated
One of my favorite authors
AMAZING. gives a real perspective of what’s like to love in the Great Depression while trying to be a normal kid.