Ham on Rye: Introduction by Roddy Doyle - Softcover

Bukowski, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841951633 ISBN 13: 9781841951638

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, first published in 1982, is probably the most autobiographical and moving of all his books, dealing in particular with his difficult relationship with his father and his early childhood in LA. 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. The novel begins against the backdrop of an America devastated by the Depression and takes the Chinaski legend up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Arguably Bukowski's finest novel.

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Charles Bukowski 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 three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

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• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1841951633
• ISBN 13: 9781841951638
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
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