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Summary
Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, first published in 1982, is probably the most autobiographical and moving of all his books, dealing in particular with his difficult relationship with his father and his early childhood in LA. Ham on Rye follows the path of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection, and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. The novel begins against the backdrop of an American devastated by the Depression and takes the Chinaski legend up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Ham on Rye is arguably Bukowski's finest novel.
First line
The first thing I remember is being under something.
From the rear cover
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.
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- Title Ham on Rye
- Author Charles Bukowski
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Date 2014-07-29
- ISBN 9780061177583 / 006117758X
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles (Calif.), Autobiographical fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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