{"product_id":"ham-on-rye-9780061177583","title":"Ham on Rye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.\" -\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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, woman, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, \u003cem\u003eHam on Rye\u003c\/em\u003e offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBukowski, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Bukowski\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, \u003cem\u003ePulp\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbel Debritto\u003c\/strong\u003e, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCharles Bukowski, King of the Underground\u003c\/em\u003e, and the editor of the Bukowski collections \u003cem\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn Cats\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOn Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50581756477714,"sku":"9780061177583","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27251ba5-e610-46ed-b5d0-1bc0d8628201.jpg?v=1732017210","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ham-on-rye-9780061177583","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}