Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
RAW ~ REBELLIOUS ~ VULGAR
Bukowski's take on the bildungsroman, an anti-coming-of-age story and his finest novel.
Lifelong misfit Henry Chinaski grows up downtrodden, stumbling through a world he has only ever known as hostile. Fights, failed romances and humiliations abound; Chinaski toughens up as he grows up, finding solace in books and in the bottle.
Savagely funny and profoundly human, Ham on Rye is essential reading for anyone who has ever been ready to quit - and chosen to laugh, drink or fight back instead.
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The Living Mountain
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The Outrun
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The Penelopiad
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Bird by Bird
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Hope In The Dark
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The Secret River
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Life Of Pi
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A Field Guide To Getting Lost
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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The Death of Bunny Munro
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
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A Fortunate Man
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Dreams From My Father
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The Crimson Petal And The White
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A Tale for the Time Being
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Under The Skin
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Widow Basquiat
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Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black
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Sex & Rage
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I'm Not Scared
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Girl Meets Boy
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To the River
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Incognito
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Gold from the Stone
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The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
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Lanark
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The Tartar Steppe
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The Cone-Gatherers
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The First Bad Man
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The Gift of Rain
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Close to the Knives
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The Cutting Room
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
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We
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Hunger
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L.A. Woman
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Poetry Unbound
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Guantanamo Diary
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Neither Wolf Nor Dog
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The Weatherhouse
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The Gift
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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
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The Lieutenant
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One Moonlit Night
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The Spare Room
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Pimp: The Story Of My Life
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A Golden Age
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Trout Fishing in America
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Post Office
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Love is a Dog From Hell
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
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Women
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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Factotum
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You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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The Pleasures of the Damned
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
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Pulp
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
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Hollywood
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On Cats
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Hot Water Music
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What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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On Love
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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses
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Betting on the Muse
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Essential Bukowski: Poetry
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South of No North
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On Writing
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The People Look Like Flowers At Last
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Play the Piano
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Run With the Hunted
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook
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The Captain is Out to Lunch
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Storm for the Living and the Dead
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, lonelinessOften 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 * *
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, lonelinessOften 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 * *
Charles Bukowski, who died in 1994, was the legendary Californian writer who became famous for his semi-autobiographical books about low-life America. Novels such as Factotum and Post Office made this one-time bum, and lifelong alcoholic, rich and famous, and culminated in the making of Barfly, a major Hollywood movie based on his life starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781837264025 |
| ISBN 10 | 1837264023 |
| Title | Ham On Rye |
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| Series | Canons |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2026-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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