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Ham on Rye

A Novel

byCharles Bukowski

Who is this book for? Readers interested in autobiographical fiction, dark humor, and coming-of-age stories.

Topics IdentitySurvivalFriendship
MoodDark, Humorous
HumorOccasional Humor
RomanceMinor Subplot
ViolenceMild
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
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.

Language

en

Published on

27/02/2007

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780061177583

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