Ham on Rye

<p><strong>Wordsworth Whitman William Carlos Williams and the<br>Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural<br>language. Bukowski moved it a little farther. -<em>Los Angeles Times Book Review</em></strong></p><br><p>In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels Charles Bukowski<br>details the long lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice<br>of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany<br>through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of<br>alcohol woman and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence <br><em>Ham on Rye</em> offers a crude brutal and savagely funny portrait of an<br>outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.</p>