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| Verlag | HarperCollins US |
| Auflage | 2007 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 13,5 x 20,3 x 1,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 210 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 006117758X |
| EAN | 9780061177583 |
| Bestell-Nr | 06117758EA |
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.
Klappentext:
"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.
Rezension:
"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