Ham on Rye

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels,Charles Bukowski details the longlonely 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 alcoholwomenand the Los Angeles Public Library’s collection of D. H. LawrenceHam on Rye offers a crudebrutaland savagely funny portrait of an outcast’s coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.