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Original Title:	Ham on Rye
ISBN:	006117758X (ISBN13: 9780061177583)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Henry Chinaski, Henry Chinaski, Sr, Katherine Chinaski
Setting:	United States of America Los Angeles, California(United States)

Ham on Rye

Charles Bukowski

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 78651 Users | 3203 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	Ham on Rye
Author	:	Charles Bukowski
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	July 29th 2014 by Ecco (first published September 1982)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature. American

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Ratings: 4.14 From 78651 Users | 3203 Reviews

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for meHunter ThompsonAnd my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all

The person who said "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" was a good place to start when beginning to read Bukowski's works couldn't have been more wrong. "Ham on Rye" is Bukowski at his best, and this memoir allowed me to understand Charles Bukowski and how he later became that "dirty old man." "Ham on Rye," like the later work, is filled with the unflinching honesty so characteristic of Bukowski, but here that honesty is less postured, uses less shock value, and shows the vulnerability underneath the

Ham on Rye is flanked by sauces of happenstance and its delectability depends on the preferences of ones reading tongue. Mine, for one, could not bear its sour, unsavoury ingredients.In this bildungsroman, which is semi-autobiographical too, the protagonist, Henry Chinaski loads his bag of dilemma and expletives, and throws its weight around with nonchalance and non-disruptive disdain. The backdrop of the Great Depression, fuels the negative sentiments and Chinaski finds its shackles, throughout

So what is a middle-class old woman who seldom drinks and never fights doing reading this book?Enjoying the hell out of it.

Every now and again, I need to go and find some Charles Bukowski. I have said in a previous review that I love him for the simple reason that he never fails to disturb me, and that is as true a statement as I will ever put down on paper. Other writers have parsed the same space that Bukowski operates in, but none have that sheer force of authenticity, that audaciousness of character that the man writes with. And yes, I know, Bukowski is very much a love/hate proposition for a large number of

Charles Bukowski is one of my favorite writers. This is one of his best books. Heartbreaking and hilarious, this was written at the perfect time by the man himself--if he had been younger it wouldn't have had the wisdom that it contains---this is probably Bukowski at his finest; all of the foundations for his later life and work are laid here: his father's brutality, his mother's complacency, the cruelty of his classmates and his rejection by just about everyone once his acne erupted;these

There is this eminent poem by Philip Larkin: They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had and add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn by fools in old-style hats and coats, who half the time were soppy-stern and half at one another's throats.And everything in Ham on Rye develops under this scenarioSo, thats what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. Thats what they needed. People were fools. It was going to