Ham on Rye
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.
288 pages, 18 editions
English edition · First published 1982 by Harper Collins · ISBN 9780061177583
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Editions
18 editions
English
- Ham on Rye · Harper Collins · 2007 · ISBN 9780061177583 · 1 reader This page
- Ham On Rye · Canongate · 2026 · ISBN 9781837264025
- Ham on Rye · Canongate · 2015 · ISBN 9781782116660
- Ham On Rye · HarperCollins · 2009 · ISBN 9780061851919
- Ham on Rye: A Novel · Canongate Books · 2008 · ISBN 9781847673664
- Ham On Rye · HarperCollins · 2007 · ISBN 9780061491931
- Ham on Rye · HarperCollins Publishers · 2007 · ISBN 9780061491962
- Ham On Rye · HarperCollins · 2007 · ISBN 9780061491917
- Ham on Rye · HarperCollins Publishers · 2007 · ISBN 9780061491955
- Ham on Rye: A Novel · Canongate · 2001 · ISBN 9781841951638
- Ham on Rye · Canongate · 2000 · ISBN 9780857861764
- Ham on Rye · Black Sparrow Press · 2000 · ISBN 9780857860880
- Ham on Rye · Rebel Inc · 2000 · ISBN 9780862419936
- Ham on Rye · Ecco Pr · 1999 · ISBN 9780062326263
- Ham on Rye: A Novel · Black Sparrow · 1982 · ISBN 9780876855584
- Ham on Rye · Amereon Ltd · 1982 · ISBN 9780848833176
- Ham on Rye: A Novel · Black Sparrow · 1982 · ISBN 9780876855577
- Ham on Rye: A Novel · Black Sparrow · 1982 · ISBN 9780876855591
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