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 acneriddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol women and the Los Angeles Public Librarys collection of D. H. Lawrence Ham on Rye offers a crude brutal and savagely funny portrait of an outcasts comingofage during the desperate days of the Great Depression.