Ham on rye

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• Growing up in deepest, darkest California...

  Ham on Rye Charles Bukowski Rebel Inc. £10, pp318 Buy it at BOL There have been better American novelists than Charles Bukowski, but none who boozed, masturbated and vomited with as much celebrated frequency. Born in Germany in 1920, he moved to Los ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

  Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, Ham on Rye, is the semi-autobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. It is a finely written and honest account of the painful childhood of a boy marked out from his peers. Regularly beate ... (read full critics)

  readysteadybook published on Mon, 18 Jul 2005

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  A less known and slightly underrated Bukowski, but one of the best I've ever had the pleasure to read. It goes beyond his usual provocative and cynical trademark style. It's a painful, honest and heartfelt account of an uncommon existence by a Holden Caulfield whose poetic and symbolic rye has been ... (continue)

  A less known and slightly underrated Bukowski, but one of the best I've ever had the pleasure to read. It goes beyond his usual provocative and cynical trademark style. It's a painful, honest and heartfelt account of an uncommon existence by a Holden Caulfield whose poetic and symbolic rye has been harvested and shaped into a sandwich. And filled with rotten ham.
  A moving, painful must-read.

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  My Bukowski is tender and touching

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  Karin said on Mar 1, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  There are some writers that are absolute. Still we forget them, and we approach our forties becoming a much worse person than when were about thirty. Like Charles Bukowski, the most influential american writer of the last century. Thanks to a good friend of mine, I have been confronted with his auto ... (continue)

  There are some writers that are absolute. Still we forget them, and we approach our forties becoming a much worse person than when were about thirty. Like Charles Bukowski, the most influential american writer of the last century. Thanks to a good friend of mine, I have been confronted with his autobiographical novel Ham on Rye. Chinaski grows, and fights his guts for the right of living his own life.

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  Peppuzzo said on Aug 14, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 336 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 1841951633
• ISBN-13: 9781841951638
• Publisher: Rebel inc.
• Pub date: Jul 12, 2001
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español

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