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In what's commonly praised whilst the greatest of his several books, Charles Bukowski facts the long, lonely years of their own hardscrabble childhood in the natural speech of alter-ego Henry Chinaski. From the harrowingly cheerless youth in Germany through acne-riddled senior school years and his teenage breakthroughs of booze, girls, and the L A Public Library's assortment of Deb. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye provides a raw, raw, and cruelly humorous face of an outcastis coming-of-age throughout the days of the Truly Amazing Depression.