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.
© 2013 HarperAudio (Audiobook): 9780062302908
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Audiobook: 13 August 2013
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.
© 2013 HarperAudio (Audiobook): 9780062302908
Release date
Audiobook: 13 August 2013
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Tania
2 Mar 2024
Bukowski is a great writer, but unlike his poetry, this book is deeply infused with bitterness, such that the only good relationship is with a nurse helping treat his boils. It doesn’t last and he doesn’t say much about her. He doesn’t say much about anything, except being bitter and sad and antisocial.
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