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.

• post office: A Novel
• Women: A Novel
• Factotum
• Love is a Dog From Hell
• Pulp
• The Last Night of the Earth Poems
• Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
• You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man
• Essential Bukowski: Poetry