Ham on Rye

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.

In ceea ce este apreciat pe scara larga ca fiind cel mai bun dintre numeroasele sale romane, Charles Bukowski detaliaza anii lungi si solitari ai tineretii sale hardscrabble in vocea bruta a alter ego-ului Henry Chinaski. Dintr-o copilarie ingrozitor de vesela in Germania, pana in anii de liceu plini de acnee si descoperirile sale adolescentine de alcool, femei si colectia de biblioteci publice din Los Angeles.