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Ham on Rye (Canons)
Charles Bukowski
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Description for Ham on Rye (Canons)
Paperback. Ham on Rye. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE
'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHEN
Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into his youth through the prism of his alter-ego Henry Chinaski, who grew up to be the legendary Hank Chinaski of Post Office and Factotum.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782116660
SKU
V9781782116660
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About Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. At the forefront of American counter-culture, his Beat Generation writing is widely celebrated. He was born in Germany in 1920 to an American soldier father and a German mother and was brought to the United States at the age of three. He grew up in Los Angeles and lived there for the majority of his life. During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books, including novels such as Factotum and Post Office. He died in 1994 shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.
Reviews for Ham on Rye (Canons)
He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels
LEONARD COHEN In an age of conformity, Bukowski wrote about the people nobody wanted to be: the ugly, the selfish, the lonely, the mad
Observer
Sometimes funny and always sad, Ham on Rye is written in an admirably hard, bare, vivid style
Times Literary Supplement
Both powerful and, where appropriate, extremely funny
Sunday Telegraph
Reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable
The Times
A scorching account of a childhood, adolescence, a life of ugliness, pain, escape, alcohol, loneliness. Often it is's funny - often it's disturbing - Ham on Rye is a powerful book
RODDY DOYLE A Laureate of American low life
Time
This great novel is Bukowski's supremely honest account of a twisted childhood
Howard Sounes
author of Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
The Thing about Bukowski is, when you read what he has to say, he's right
SEAN PENN Raunchy yet lyrical, occasionally hilarious while abysmally sad
San Francisco Chronicle
LEONARD COHEN In an age of conformity, Bukowski wrote about the people nobody wanted to be: the ugly, the selfish, the lonely, the mad
Observer
Sometimes funny and always sad, Ham on Rye is written in an admirably hard, bare, vivid style
Times Literary Supplement
Both powerful and, where appropriate, extremely funny
Sunday Telegraph
Reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable
The Times
A scorching account of a childhood, adolescence, a life of ugliness, pain, escape, alcohol, loneliness. Often it is's funny - often it's disturbing - Ham on Rye is a powerful book
RODDY DOYLE A Laureate of American low life
Time
This great novel is Bukowski's supremely honest account of a twisted childhood
Howard Sounes
author of Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
The Thing about Bukowski is, when you read what he has to say, he's right
SEAN PENN Raunchy yet lyrical, occasionally hilarious while abysmally sad
San Francisco Chronicle