num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: Ham on Rye
titlecomplete: Ham on Rye
characters: Henry Chinaski, Katherine Chinaski, Henry Chinaski, Sr
genres: 20th Century, American, Coming Of Age, Novels, Poetry, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 102508
places: The United States of America, Los Angeles, California
publisher: Ecco