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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 Format: Kindle Book Label: HarperCollins e-books Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: September 04, 2007 Publisher: HarperCollins e-books Release Date: September 04, 2007 Studio: HarperCollins e-books Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product 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." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An enjoyable account of a crude childhoodA feel-good novel this is not. "Ham on Rye," this reader's first encounter with the author, was a relatively quick read about a rather painful childhood of Harry Chinaski, a German-American kid with an anti-conformist bent so pronounced that Holden Caulfield would tell him to cheer up. Chinaski is miserable in life - with his family, his school, and his economic standing. To cope, he turns to schoolyard violence and terrible habits, giving the reader a front seat into the ... Read More Rating:  - Great work from a disciplined writerAt times in his life, Charles Bukowski may have lived like the dissolute Hank Chinaski, his alcoholic protagonist in post office: A Novel, Factotum, Women: A Novel, and HAM ON RYE. But in reading HoR, the quality that communicated most clearly to this reader was Buk's immense discipline. There's no self-indulgence, anywhere, in this book. There's no material, anywhere, that doesn't immediately contribute to the development of Hank's character. This discipline means that HoR has absolutely zero bloat. ... Read More Rating: - When men were men"Ham on Rye" was my first introduction to the writing of Charles Bukowski, and tells the story of his alter-ego, Henry Chinaski. It is semi-autobiographical, so when reading, it is best to approach the entire book as fiction, rather than trying to attribute events in the book with the real life of Bukowski. It begins with Chinaski's youth during the Great Depression, and relates his struggles with social and familial acceptance from elementary school through college. The book focuses on his relationship ... Read More Rating: - More genius from Bukowski. I read this book, and I loved it. It's from this novel that I had to read four or five more Bukowski novels, and I wasn't disappointed. This book is brilliance. I really loved it. Rating: - "Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?" So asks (p. 245) Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as this gripping romansbildung draws to a conclusion. The rather mysteriously-titled Ham on Rye is undoubtedly Bukowski's finest and most obviously autobiographical novel. In it, he gives us a variably chilling, pathetic, hilarious, and defiant portrait of Chinaski's first 20 years, taking us right up to the attack on Pearl Harbor and Chinaski on his way to the Skid Row existence brutally chronicled in Factotum, the second volume in the Chinaski series. ... Read More 
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