Ham on Rye

Bukowski, Charles

ISBN 10: 0876855575 / ISBN 13: 9780876855577

Published by Black Sparrow Press,U.S., 1984

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Soft cover book in very good condition. Stated fourth printing from 1984. Light toning and wear to wraps. Interior pages bright and unmarked, binding tight. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ham on Rye
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876855575
• ISBN 13: 9780876855577
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Charles Bukowsk is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.