ARGONAUT BOOKS

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 TelegraphReflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readableThe TimesA scorching account of a childhood, adolescence, a life of ugliness, pain, escape, alcohol, loneliness. Often it is's funny - often it's disturbin...Read More