Ham on Rye

A Novel

by Charles Bukowski

On Sale: 07/29/2014

Ham on Rye

Enlarge Book Cover

Ham on Rye

A Novel

by Charles Bukowski

On Sale: 07/29/2014

Format:

About the Book

“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

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.

Critical Praise

“There is real poignancy in the people encountered in Bukowski’s work.” — New York Times Book Review

“The poet laureate of sour alleys and dark bars, of racetracks and long shots.” — Washington Post

“A prolific poet . . . a popular, accessible, and yes, great artist.” — Washington Post Book World

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” — Joyce Carol Oates

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” — Leonard Cohen

-

Resources

Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780061177583
  • ISBN 10: 006117758X
  • Imprint: Ecco
  • On Sale: 07/29/2014
  • Pages: 288
  • List Price:21.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : FICTION / Coming of Age
  • BISAC2 : FICTION / City Life
  • BISAC3 : FICTION / Classics
  • BISAC4 : FICTION / Literary
  • BISAC5 : FICTION / Urban

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

The broadest selection of online bookstores. The links will take you to the web site's home page.

Other Booksellers

The broadest selection of online bookstores. The links will take you to the Web site's home page.

SELECT:

Specialty Booksellers

Interest-specific online venues and gift accounts that offer books for purchase. The links will take you to the store’s home page.

International Customers

If you are located outside Canada, the best way to order online is to choose from the following bookstores listed by region and country.