ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Ham on Rye' follows the path of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. Reviews He brought everyone down to earth, even the angelsLEONARD COHENIn an age of conformity, Bukowski wrote about the people nobody wanted to be: the ugly, the selfish, the lonely, the madObserverSometimes funny and always sad, Ham on Rye is written in an admirably hard, bare, vivid styleTimes Literary SupplementBoth powerful and, where appropriate, extremely funnySunday TelegraphRefl...Read More