In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels Charles Bukowskidetails the long lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voiceof alter ego... » 

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels Charles Bukowskidetails the long lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voiceof alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germanythrough acneriddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries ofalcohol women and the Los Angeles Public Librarys collection of D. H.Lawrence Ham on Rye offers a crude brutal and savagely funny portrait ofan outcasts comingofage during the desperate days of the Great Depression. «