Synopsis
This work, by legendary barfly Charles Bukowski, follows the path of his alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection, drinking his way through the Depression, and ends emotionally at the start of World War II. It captures the battered feelings of a true outcast.
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Revue de presse
"A scorching account of a childhood, adolescence, a life of ugliness, pain, escape, alcohol, loneliness. Often it is's funny - often it's disturbing - Ham on Rye is a powerful book" (Roddy Doyle)
"He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels" (LEONARD COHEN)
"In an age of conformity, Bukowski wrote about the people nobody wanted to be: the ugly, the selfish, the lonely, the mad" (Observer)
"Sometimes funny and always sad, Ham on Rye is written in an admirably hard, bare, vivid style" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Both powerful and, where appropriate, extremely funny" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable" (The Times)
"This great novel is Bukowski's supremely honest account of a twisted childhood" (Howard Sounes author of Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life)
"The Thing about Bukowski is, when you read what he has to say, he's right" (SEAN PENN)
"Raunchy yet lyrical, occasionally hilarious while abysmally sad" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"We all knew Bukowski was a tough guy, but who would have guessed that even the grave could not shut him up?" (BILLY COLLINS)
"There is a real poignancy in the people encountered in Bukowski's work" (New York Times Book Review)
"A Laureate of American low life" (Time) --Roddy Doyle
Présentation de l'éditeur
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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Ham on Rye ("Rebel Inc")
Edité par
Black Sparrow, 2000
ISBN 10 : 086241993X
ISBN 13 : 9780862419936
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Etat : good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. N° de réf. du vendeur M0086241993X-G
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Ham on Rye
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Rebel, Inc., 2000
ISBN 10 : 086241993X
ISBN 13 : 9780862419936
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Soft cover
Vendeur : Metakomet Books, Concord, MA, Etats-Unis
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Soft cover. Etat : Good. Mild wear to edges, with small bump to back cover near top edge. Date written to back endpaper. Otherwise, clean, sound, copy. 318 pgs. Thiis edition published in Great Britain in 2000. N° de réf. du vendeur 2900rye
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Ham on Rye ("Rebel Inc" S.)
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Black Sparrow, 2000
ISBN 10 : 086241993X
ISBN 13 : 9780862419936
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Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
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Paperback. Etat : Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR002184537
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Ham on Rye A Novel
Edité par
Rebel Inc, Edinburgh, 2000
ISBN 10 : 086241993X
ISBN 13 : 9780862419936
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Trade Paperback
Vendeur : Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australie
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Trade Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Reprint. Very Good + condition - Card Covers. Introduction by Roddy Doyle. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 318 pages. A coming of age story - semi-autobiographical written in the first person, the novel follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's thinly veiled alter ego, during his early year. N° de réf. du vendeur 327645
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Ham on Rye
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Rebel Inc Canongate Books Ltd, Edinburgh, 2000
ISBN 10 : 086241993X
ISBN 13 : 9780862419936
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Original Wraps
Edition originale
Vendeur : Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Royaume-Uni
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Original Wraps. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Paperback Original. First UK edition. Six page introduction by Roddy Doyle. Originally published in the US by Black Sparrow Press in 1982. Reading creasing down the centre of the spine. Edge rubbing to the covers with a little browning around the edges of the rear cover. Small creases to the top corners of a few pages but the pages are otherwise unmarked. First printing. N° de réf. du vendeur 017767
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HAM ON RYE (First UK edition - first impression - paperback original)
Edité par
Rebel Inc. (An imprint of Canongate Books), Edinburgh, 2000
ISBN 10 : 086241993X
ISBN 13 : 9780862419936
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Original Wraps
Edition originale
Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
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Original Wraps. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition - a PBO. With a six page introduction by Roddy Doyle specially written for this edition. The book was originally published in the USA by Black Sparrow Press in 1982. ***Very good in colour-illustrated card covers. Edges of covers slightly rubbed. No creases or tears. Corners sharp. Covers clean. There is a small indentation to the back cover edge, affecting the last few pages. There are reading creases to the spine which is slightly curved from reading. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Spine tight. ***318 pages. 215mm x 130mm. ***'"Ham on Rye" follows the path of legendary barfly Charles Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the turbulent years of high school and college and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. "Ham on Rye" is Charles Bukowski's fourth novel and the most moving of all his books, dealing with his early years in Los Angeles, and in particular with his difficult relationship with his father. 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. ***"This Rebel Inc edition marks the first UK publication of what is arguably Bukowski's finest work and has a specially commissioned introduction by Roddy Doyle." ***"A scorching account of a childhood, an adolescence, a life of ugliness, pain, escape, alcohol, loneliness. Often it's funny - often it's disturbing - Ham on Rye is a powerful book." Roddy Doyle (Quote and review taken from the back cover) ***'Henry Charles Bukowski [Aug 16, 1920 - Mar 9, 1994] was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City. Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. As noted by one reviewer, "Bukowski continued to be, thanks to his antics and deliberate clownish performances, the king of the underground and the epitome of the littles in the ensuing decades, stressing his loyalty to those small press editors who had first championed his work and consolidating his presence in new ventures such as the New York Quarterly, Chiron Review, or Slipstream." Some of these works include his "Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window", published by his friend and fellow poet Charles Potts, and better known works such as "Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame". These poems and stories were later republished by John Martin's Black Sparrow Pres as collected volumes of his work. Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero." Since his death in March 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings, despite his work having received relatively little attention from academic critics in the United States during his lifetime. In contrast, Bukowski enjoyed extraordinary fame in Europe. (Wiki) ***A nice copy of the first UK edition of this classic work by Bukowski - published as a PBO. Surprisingly uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur PB192
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HAM ON RYE (First UK edition - first impression - paperback original)
Edité par
Rebel Inc. (An imprint of Canongate Books), Edinburgh, 2000
ISBN 10 : 086241993X
ISBN 13 : 9780862419936
Ancien ou d'occasion
Original Wraps
Edition originale
Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Original Wraps. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Edition. First impression of the true first UK edition - a paperback original. With a six page introduction by Roddy Doyle specially written for this edition. The book was originally published in the USA by Black Sparrow Press in 1982. ***Near fine in colour-illustrated card covers. Edges of covers just slightly rubbed. No creases or tears. No bumps. Corners sharp. Covers clean. No reading creases to the spine. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Spine tight. ***318 pages. 215mm x 130mm. ***'"Ham on Rye" follows the path of legendary barfly Charles Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the turbulent years of high school and college and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. Ham on Rye is Charles Bukowski's fourth novel and the most moving of all his books, dealing with his early years in Los Angeles, and in particular with his difficult relationship with his father. 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'. ***"This Rebel Inc edition marks the first UK publication of what is arguably Bukowski's finest work and has a specially commissioned introduction by Roddy Doyle."' ***"A scorching account of a childhood, an adolescence, a life of ugliness, pain, escape, alcohol, loneliness. Often it's funny - often it's disturbing - Ham on Rye is a powerful book." - Roddy Doyle (Quote and review taken from the back cover) ***'Henry Charles Bukowski [Aug 16, 1920 - Mar 9, 1994] was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City. Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. As noted by one reviewer, "Bukowski continued to be, thanks to his antics and deliberate clownish performances, the king of the underground and the epitome of the littles in the ensuing decades, stressing his loyalty to those small press editors who had first championed his work and consolidating his presence in new ventures such as the New York Quarterly, Chiron Review, or Slipstream." Some of these works include his "Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window", published by his friend and fellow poet Charles Potts, and better known works such as "Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame". These poems and stories were later republished by John Martin's Black Sparrow Pres as collected volumes of his work. Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero." Since his death in March 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings, despite his work having received relatively little attention from academic critics in the United States during his lifetime. In contrast, Bukowski enjoyed extraordinary fame in Europe, the UK and particularly in Germany, the place of his birth. (Wiki) ***A nice near fine copy of the first UK paperback edition of this classic work by Bukowski - published as a paperback original. Surprisingly uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur PB157x
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