HAM ON RYE (First UK edition - first impression - paperback original)
Charles Bukowski (Roddy Doyle - intoduction)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Rebel Inc. (An imprint of Canongate Books), Edinburgh, 2000
- Éd. originale
- Livre broché
- Occasion
Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-UniOrlando Booksellers
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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
- Titre
- HAM ON RYE (First UK edition - first impression - paperback original)
- Auteur
- Charles Bukowski (Roddy Doyle - intoduction)
- Éditeur
- Rebel Inc. (An imprint of Canongate Books), Edinburgh
- Année de publication
- 2000
- État de l'article
- Near Fine
- Jaquette
- No Jacket, as Issued
- Reliure
- Original Wraps
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 086241993X
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9780862419936
- Édition
- First UK Edition
- Impression
- First Impression
- Catalogues du vendeur
- Beat Writers & Counter Culture, Collectable Paperbacks, First Editions
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Revue de presse
"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
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