Ham on Rye
by Charles Bukowski
ISBN: 0876855591
ISBN-13: 9780876855591
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Henry Chinaski has a rough childhood, including an abusive father, and grows up into a world of alcoholism and alienation. Bukowski's autobiographical 1982 novel has become a cult favorite.
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"Sometimes funny and always sad, HAM ON RYE is written in an admirably hard, bare, vivid style. It offers grim insights into the construction of masculinity and American life between the wars." -- Phil Baker
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Black Sparrow
Published date: 1982
Pages: 283
Publisher's Notes
A down-and-out writer recalls his childhood, schooling, and the years leading up to World War II.
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Ham on Rye
Bukowski, Charles
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. Half Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Signed by Author. 292 pp. One of 100 copies numbered and signed and with an original painting by Bukowski bound in, this being number 14. Bound in half blue cloth with light yellow boards printed in tourquoise, yellow, black, grey and red on front cover yellow, red, yellow and tourquoise on back cover. Light yellow paper label on spine printed in red and turquoise. Turquoise endsheets. Tissue guards on both sides of painting which is tipped in between copyright page and dedication page. Painting is in oil, signed BUK and is 5 3/4" by 9". In acetate dustjacket which has a small bruise at spine, not affecting book. Painting, which is particularly nice, is pristine as is book. ( more information)
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