Ham on Rye
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Written by Charles Bukowski.
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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.
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Max Brodsky thinks this book is Excellent.
Probably one of Charles Bukowski's best works of prose. The protagonist, Henry Chinski, shows the hardships of youth to an extended view. Henry has to fight to maintain a constant level with those around him. The book divulges into the mentality of abuse, neglect, and the hardships of being an immigrant to America.