Ham on Rye follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego, through his troubled high school years to the beginning of a long and destructive struggle with alcoholism. Henry's early experiences are a mix of wry misadventure and emotional turmoil. He struggles with women, sports, his own writing, and, most heartbreakingly, his father - a monster of a man who looms large over almost every page of this wise and tough account of adolescence.
- ISBN10 085786176X
- ISBN13 9780857861764
- Publish Date 18 August 2011 (first published 1 January 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 January 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Imprint Canongate Canons
- Edition Main - Canons Imprint
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 368
- Language English