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Ham on Rye: A Novel Paperback – July 29, 2014

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“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.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

In 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, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

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“There is real poignancy in the people encountered in Bukowski’s work.” (New York Times Book Review)

“The poet laureate of sour alleys and dark bars, of racetracks and long shots.” (Washington Post)

“A prolific poet . . . a popular, accessible, and yes, great artist.” (Washington Post Book World)

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” (Joyce Carol Oates)

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” (Leonard Cohen)

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Item Weight : 8 ounces
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 006117758X
ISBN-13 : 978-0061177583
Product Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.65 x 8 inches
Publisher : Ecco; Reprint Edition (July 29, 2014)
Language: : English

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S.A.N MONSANTO MONSANTO

Bukowski at his finest

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017

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Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, Ham on Rye, is the semi-autobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. It is a finely written and honest account of the painful childhood of a boy marked out from his peers. Regularly beaten by his father, Chinaski is shown growing through his difficult and violent adolescence (struck with the worst case of acne his doctors have ever seen) through to the first jobs he can't and won't hold down. In this moving story of growing up Bukowski disciplines his muscular, concentrated writing and creates a novel that distils his poetry into the finest full-length piece of prose that he ever wrote. Bukowski is often good but in Ham on Rye he's great.

Sadly, best known as the alcoholic inspiration for the film Barfly (an experience he reflected on in his book Hollywood), it is as a poet, rather than a drunk, that Bukowski should be best remembered. His bitter, caustic, direct, humane, damaged poetry reflects a life dominated by poverty and booze. His poetry stretches over many, many volumes but Bukowski also wrote great novels: all of them have many faults but the first four books he wrote shine for similar reasons. Post Office and Factotum both dissect, quite brilliantly, the life of an angry, poor man forced to do mindless jobs, pushed around and considered mindless by the fools who force him to do them. Women, as Roddy Doyle points out in his short introduction, continues the themes but focuses on the numerous women who share his hero's bed and bottle.
I would call Chinaski a misanthrope, were it not for his abiding love – nay, obsession- with the female form. (let’s just say l had no idea how gross teenage males could be). Oh, and of course, alcohol. He notably remarks, after experiencing intoxication for the first time: “this is going to help me for a long, long time”.

Unfortunately, the honeymoon is short-lived, and his relationship with alcohol leads to progressively seedier and more violent behavior.
There’s not really much of a “plot” in Ham on Rye: it tells the story of the first 20 years of Chinaski’s life; and then it ends. And that was OK with me.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2015

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Ham on Rye is a brilliant little novel about adolescence. While this story has been told a thousand times before, the narrative voice of our acne'd outsider protagonist is incredibly refreshing. When one considers that many of the other narratives of the era tend to be self-affirming urban adventure stories that take themselves too seriously, Bukowski's narrative shows us a semi-autobiographical, self-deprecating, cynical life that’s rife with alcohol, disappointment, and fistfights.

Bukowski's boozy world is one where the outsider is the king protagonist of his own destiny, and it is one that is probably shared with a great deal of young men in their American upbringing. His dysfunctional family echoed my own experiences (even though I didn't necessarily have physical punishment, the emotional aspect was spot on). His feelings on his own existence as an animal (and of course, I didn't have the acne problems, but I have myriad others that gave me outsider social status) were real. His experiences with young women, school, and trying to make it against all odds professionally and educationally were very familiar to me.
While Bukowski may be offensive to most readers, the plain fact of the matter is that his views on life and adolescent sexuality are the exact same ones I had in my youth. What is the most memorable is the manner in which he tells the story. He doesn't self-edit. He doesn't leave anything out. He tells us everything about his experiences as they happen. This isn't entirely something that should be described as offensive, but real. A real experience. What it is really like. And while many of us want to find some parochial editorializing when we read, the best part about Bukowski is that that is simply not in his novels.

I first read his work when I was eighteen or nineteen years old. Now that I am thirty-five, picking up HOR again has left me with a reading experience that was much different since I have had a great deal more life experience and perspective. Looking at this book today, I have found a hilarious, beautiful, tragic, and exciting narrative about living as an outsider in America. I absolutely loved it – more than I did the first time – and look forward to revisiting a couple more (Post Office and Women) in the coming year.

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Not that great

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2019

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The earlier parts of the book are good: the young Chinaski's misfit friends and the abuse he suffers from his family, his classmates, and society at large. At times it's pointlessly crass but then, I suppose, it wasn't too far from how my classmates and I spoke and thought. The latter parts are bad. Nothing but drinking, meanness, and fighting with no sense of direction or purpose in the plot. The fistfights are tiresome and unbelievable. We get it, Chinaski is a mean drunk with no desire to be anything -- the simplicity of this personality cannot be an excuse for boring writing. Overall a 2/5 rating. If the latter portions of the book were removed, re-worked, or simply ignored, it could be a sold 3.5/5.

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JM Harvey

Bleak, harrowing, funny, tawdry, gross and funny again

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017

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The events of this book precede Post Office and detail Bukowski's childhood. This is raw and emotional, bleak and hard to take at times but Bukowski is so open and honest you can't tear your eyes off of him. This was reality fiction before reality TV. An ugly teenager without social skills, a father who seems to despise him and a mother almost as pitiful as the author. Bukowski still manages to evoke the human experience I think most of us can find some parallels with or own experiences of teenage angst and self loathing his experiences with sex and alcohol, though Bukowski takes this to nihilistic and levels of disgust that would make most of us blanch. This is funny and raucous and well worth a read.

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young and looking to hold onto something when there seemed very little about

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2019

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Ham on Rye has been one of my two favourite novels for almost thirty years. The other has varied over time – first Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, then Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, then Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, alternating between them, back and forth – but always side by side with Ham on Rye. When I ran away to the big city in 1991, not quite a proper reader or anywhere near a writer yet, one of my co-op housemates, a student at the Polytechnic of East London (as it was then), had in his room a copy of Bukowski’s Women. Something about the name Bukowski suggested to me American and academic, and I thought it the sort of thing I ought to be reading. But no, he told me, Women was the opposite of all that, it was the one thing that brought him relief after long hours spent in the college library, swotting away alongside those feminist bitches. Intrigued, I borrowed it from him immediately he’d finished it, and my eyes were opened. I had no idea you were allowed to write about the things described within its pages: drinking for days on end, wanking, avoiding work wherever possible. One of my other housemates had a copy of his short story collection, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, a gift from someone known to us as Junkie Bob, and the things my eyes had been opened to came into sharper focus. And then I was away, I was a writer too. As the man himself might have said, it was like magic. Now Women seems to me a little repulsive, a bit boring; it’s essentially the weakest of his first three novels, following on from Post Office and Factotum : essentially self-indulgent, misogynist, its subliminal message seeming to be, I’m a poet now and all the women love me, but secretly I hate them, hee hee. But Ham on Rye stands alone.

Before I came across it, I was given a collection of Bukowski’s poems and short stories, Septuagenarian Stew. Many of the poems are set in the desperate world of Ham on Rye, Bukowski’s depression-era childhood, and the clarity and the innocence that goes into his descriptions of universal boyhood activities, repugnant and artless but always unpretentious, are what stick with you. It’s worth stating here that, although he wrote a series of novels, the last couple of them of even more middling quality than Women, Bukowski was first and foremost a poet, and this is evident in the short paragraphs and chapters here, the one-off killer lines and the not-quite-inane profundities. Like a really good poem, it all comes at you in a rush, and there’s no filter: indeed, the story goes that when Bukowski’s original publisher, John Martin of Black Sparrow Press (which he started by selling his collection of rare first editions in order to publish Bukowski and other underground writers), asked if he’d ever considered writing a novel, Bukowski had said I’ll knock one out for you, and a month later he had Post Office.

Ham on Rye begins with the toddler Henry Chinaski (Bukowski’s exaggerated alter-ego throughout his work) lying under a dining table and commenting on the legs of the people and the furniture – he prefers the legs of the tables and chairs to those of the people, projecting backward the world-weary cynicism of his youth and adulthood, from an anal-retentive stage in grade school to his macho posturing in high school, through the brutal beatings administered by his father for the slightest infraction, real or imagined, to his mother’s abject failure to come to his aid, to his final escape from the house of his parents as the novel draws to a close : I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor… I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. Was a man born just to endure [these] things and then die? Although I didn’t suffer anything like the level of routine physical violence Chinaski did, I do identify strongly with this childhood, the poverty and the casual verbal deprecation: look at him, he’s bloody useless, what an idiot; so perhaps Ham on Rye isn’t for everybody; and yet, it is, it really is. Because this is the human condition, as they say.

This is my fourth or fifth reading of Ham on Rye, and it really hasn’t lost any of its power over the years, despite its occasional lapses into an almost infantile arrogance and naiveté. I remember from my last reading of Ham on Rye thinking that it was about thirty pages too long, that the section after Chinaski leaves home to go live alone and drink himself to death was unnecessarily unpleasant and really ought to have been cut. Curiously, it doesn’t seem so bad now, although the way he tries to beat up anyone who visits him does get a little boring. But more than anything else, it’s Chinaski’s identification of literature as a redemptive force, a saving grace when all else seems so hopeless that does it for me. As he says in The Burning of the Dream in Septuagenarian Stew, this library was there when I was young and looking to hold onto something when there seemed very little about. Still a favourite, Five stars.

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A personal route to .......

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2012

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`Ham on Rye' - the ham is America, in practice LA, and the rye(bread) is Germany, his country of origin - is generally considered Bukowski's finest novel. It is an account of the childhood and early manhood of one Hank Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego. Hank is raised in a small town in the depth of the 1930's depression. His father is out of work for most of the time, but desperate to keep up appearances, and his mother is a characterless soul who just supports her husband. The latter is also a sadist, who regularly viciously beats Hank for trivial `errors'. But the novel is only semi-autobiographical, because in fact Bukowski's parents had a normal marriage and his father was not the monster portrayed in the book. What is factual is the serious disfiguring skin condition that Bukowski suffered and is mirrored in the acne suffered by Hank Chinaski. This isolates Chinaski from his classmates, and he is also bullied because of his Germanic origins. He takes refuge in reading in the local library and dreaming of becoming a writer, but he realizes that his alienation is deeper, not just with his family and school, but with America in general and its values. He has no desire to have a steady job, marry and have children, or any of the other things that most American's hold dear. He even flirts in a minor way with fascism and shows no inclination to enlist even when, at the end of the book, Pearl Harbour is bombed and one of his few school friends, now a marine, rushes back to his base. Eventually he pays the price, seemingly willingly, and descends to drink, and frequent personal violence.

The story overall is sad and depressing, but there are many small pen sketches of people and incidents, often humorous, sometimes moving, that makes one see that Chinaski is a complex character and not simply a nihilist. The writing is direct, sometimes raw, and often coarse, but is just right for the situations described. In his late 50s, after some years `in the wilderness', Bukowski became famous and rich from his writings, and although still consuming copious amounts of alcohol and changing partners regularly, achieved a more settled life, always believing that he had not `sold out'. One would like to think that Hank Chinaski eventually also found a haven via his chosen route, and similarly not `selling out'.

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There ain't nothing hammy about this...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2011

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The early days of America's greatest are chronicled here in the guise of his alter ego, one Henry Chinaski. Be prepared to hear about what really happens every day at the wrong end of the dirtiest stick you can find.

If any society, in any country, wants to know where its loners, outcasts, estranged misfits and other social deviants come from, then some of the answers are in this book. Alienated, demonised, bullied, excluded, annulled to finally become a mere observer of life rather a fully functional participant in it.... our Mr Chinaski here - did he jump or was he pushed? Probably a bit of both.

Whether you identify with the main character or not. This is a hilarious but insightful, head around the door that will never fully open, look into the early life of one disturbed character and how he survived each day with the worst case of acne the doctor has ever seen.

Many fathers beat their kids. I know mine did. Wether I deserved it or not, is not the point of discussion in this book, because that's just one tiny corrosive thing that happens on a regular basis. Bukowski becomes a man, when he finally learns to 'detach' himself from the beatings his old man gave him - but is that when he really does become 'a man'? Or are those parental beatings something else that adds to his later detachment?

The essence of this humourous, graphic and sometimes painful to read, book takes us through that whole detachment process, bit by bit, punch by punch, beer by beer, breath by breath, day by day. Life by life. So when we leave him in the final scene, what has be become? A hardened drinker ready to face the world? An incorrigable reprobate with deep-seated misanthropic unremovable tendencies? A true poet, able to describe and refer to many of lifes worse moments like no other man could? A womaniser, an alcoholic, a gambler, a bum, a loser, an outcast, a struggling writer (like they all were)? He was all those things. But what we also see in this book how that man is made, how his later complexities are nutured and the die cast. What a life.

As with 'Pleasure of the Damned' poetry collection discussed elsewhere, the technical aspects of the work are not the strong points. What needs further referal is the sense of isolation, and how he, over the course of the book, creates that air of chronic detachment. I've read 'The outsider' by Camus, and that writing is streets ahead of this, but this is a much more fullfiling read.

On the downside I found: There are some glaring exaggerations however that render the plausibility of what is being said a bit too self pitying. When he has all those beers waiting for his friends mother to come home, only after 'many' beers does he want to look up the skirt of his friends mother. The other exaggeration is of loneliness itself. Throughout the book, he mingles with various people, goes round their houses, meets others, exchanges lots of competative verbals; would a real loner want or have that much contact - with anyone? But you could counter that those exaggerations are part of the alter ego building process. Thet necessity of them is to realise that the rest even exists to begin with. Writers create alter egos in the first place for what reason?

There's nothing hamy about this semi-autobiographical book, a disturbing insight into the early life and times of a man that later became one of America's most (in)famous writers. He was 73 when he died. This book is about survival - not opting out.

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Ben Snape

A grounding example of growing up. Ham on Rye presents personal victory and everyday sorrows in the smallest of experiences.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2019

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Ham on Rye truely is a woeful tale of childhood and the struggles of growing up as an outsider. Charles Bukowski did a marvellous job of bringing bursts of live in everyword, using style of that evokes raw originality and unique boldness. Bukowski never fails to suck me into his world and grips me like no other writer. If you find yourself losing interest in books crammed with symbolism, then Ham on Rye and Bukowksi is the light to ignite your cigarette.

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Damien Owens

Strength of character through a difficult childhood

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2015

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This is a book of its time - growing up during the Depression in pre-war America. The character Hank Chinaski tells the story of his harrowing childhood marred on the one side by a physically abusive father and on the other by disfiguring acne-like skin condition. Chinaski's self-imposed isolation is not helped by the fact that he is German-born in a country preparing for war with Germany. The atmosphere and descriptions of the scenes are bleak and the teenage Chinaski is cynically observant beyond his years seeing only futility in the lives of other peoples' actions and behaviour. A very good read and an good introduction to the style of Bukoswski (Kindle edition)

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Extra rye, easy on the eye

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2012

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There's a lot made of the fact this is Bukowski's most autobiographical work but there's so much more to it than that. I was disappointed in Hollywood, I had expected more the first time I read it and the second it just felt a little inflated towards the end but Ham on Rye is a masterclass in writing. Perfect storytelling, perfect humour and the writing is as tight as lazer guided as it's ever going to be. I wish I could read it again for the first time.

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Oh boy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2011

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I read this on holiday at the same time as Bill Bryson's ' The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid .' I wouldn't recommend doing that, your innocent 1950s heart will have its head cracked in by a swinging prosthetic arm. This book took me by surprise but it was a great read, I love his frank and honest style even if it can get a bit vulgar for my British mentality but if you can either hack it or ignore it then this is a brilliant read. Just don't let your mother read it, she'll choke on her shortbread.

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Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2020

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A long time ago I began to read this book, but it was only recently that I took a holiday and read it with my attention in full mode. I have read Bukowski's poetry for years, but Ham on Rye is something else!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2016

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A tale of a dysfunctional family who have more downs than ups - full of wit, wisdom and a delightful use of language. If you like things sugar coated and frothy Bukowski is not your man, but if you are a realistic and can copy with gritty an excellent book.

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Deep insight into a troubled man

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2016

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Charles Bukowski was a troubled man. But what a writer. This book is a very personal depiction of Bukowski's own childhood. He a difficult man to like, but you can understand why he is the way he is. And that makes this book so fascinating. Long before we celebrated flawed protagonists, Charles Bukowski was writing Ham on Rye.

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Agile,Raw and Honest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2011

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An agile and brutal narrative of life in a depression era Los Angeles,seen through the keen eyes of a young Bukowski.The economy of prose make it a fast paced book and although some of the scenes are apt to wallow in desperation or violence I wouldn't call it a depressing book,but more of an honest portrait of a man reacting to his environment and his contempt towards apathy.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2014

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I foiund this book very good to read, I belong to a bookclub and it wasn't everyones cup of tea as the father is a spiteful man but the story of a young lads struggle to grow up was thrilling. The book arrived in plenty of time and is in a good condition, would use this seller again

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An interesting read, worth it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2015

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Came in a really good condition (brought second hand), couldn't find any fault with it.
It's a good read, if some what depressing but interesting none the less. It's one of those books that makes you think and stays in the back of your mind.

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A Rich read about Poverty. Recommend!

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Envelops you in the time and place!

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Superbly simple, yet almost a unique talent. And that's just it- it's a talent, a gift. From somewhere. One of the best books I've ever read. Bukowski at his sublime best.

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