Through henry, charles uses ham on rye to talk about his harrowing childhood and the joys that adolescence eventually brought. His beat was the seedy underside, the racetracks and strip joints, the panhandlers and hustlers, the drunks and hookers rather than the glamour of hollywood. 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. Lowlife writer and unrepentant alcoholic henry chinaski was born to survive. One of charles bukowskis best, this beersoaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer henry chinaski across world war iiera america.
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