Ham On Rye

Charles Bukowski

Original title: Ham on Rye

earliest edition we have, 1982 HarperCollins, 2007 ebook

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...

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Ham on Rye edition · 2015 · Canongate Books · 9781782116660
Ham on Rye ebook · 2008 · Canongate Books · 9781847673664
Ham On Rye ebook · 2007 · HarperCollins · 9780061491917
Ham on rye paperback · 2002 · Ecco · 283 pages · 9780061177583
Ham on Rye paperback · 2001 · Canongate · 316 pages · 9781841951638
Ham on rye edition · 1982 · Black Sparrow · 283 pages

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