Ham on Rye

Bukowski, Charles; Doyle, Roddy (Introduction)

ISBN 10: 086241993X / ISBN 13: 9780862419936

Published by Rebel Inc Canongate Books Ltd, Edinburgh, 2000

About this Item

Paperback Original. First UK edition. Six page introduction by Roddy Doyle. Originally published in the US by Black Sparrow Press in 1982. Reading creasing down the centre of the spine. Edge rubbing to the covers with a little browning around the edges of the rear cover. Small creases to the top corners of a few pages but the pages are otherwise unmarked. First printing.

Seller Inventory # 017767

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ham on Rye
• Publisher: Rebel Inc Canongate Books Ltd, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 086241993X
• ISBN 13: 9780862419936
• Binding: Original Wraps
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• 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, woman, 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 Bukowski 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 two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.