Ham On Rye (Canons) - Softcover

Bukowski, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085786176X ISBN 13: 9780857861764

Publisher: Canongate Canons, 2011

Synopsis

Ham on Rye follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego, through his troubled high school years to the beginning of a long and destructive struggle with alcoholism. Henry's early experiences are a mix of wry misadventure and emotional turmoil. He struggles with women, sports, his own writing, and, most heartbreakingly, his father - a monster of a man who looms large over almost every page of this wise and tough account of adolescence.

About this title

About the Author

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. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Canons
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085786176X
• ISBN 13: 9780857861764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368