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Topics charles bukowski, bukowski, book, poetry collection opensource language english. Regularly beaten by his father, chinaski is shown growing through his difficult and violent adolescence struck with the worst case of acne his doctors. A classic in the bukowski poetry canon, love is a dog from hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. He a difficult man to like, but you can understand why he is the way he is. It ends with him gazing uncertainly at the rockem, sockemrobotlike game where his toy boxer has been knocked down for the count by a kid across the way. Whats most striking about charles bukowskis semiautobiographical novel apart from the characteristic honesty and humour is the style. This book is a very personal depiction of bukowski s own childhood. Bukowskis bildungsroman, ham on rye, shows chinaski as victim, practitioner, and critic of male violence, with the last role figuring into his other work too. Ham on rye by charles bukowski, first edition abebooks.
Charles bukowskis fourth novel, ham on rye, is the semiautobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego henry chinaski. Bukowski april 34, 2015 sorting out my books in my library i came across this oversized book by the underground poet and dirty old man charles bukowski, known through his by acne deformed visage. Ham on rye begins with the toddler henry chinaski bukowskis exaggerated alterego throughout his work lying under a dining table and commenting on the legs of the people and the furniture he prefers the legs of the tables and chairs to those of the people, projecting backward the worldweary cynicism of his youth and adulthood, from an. Charles bukowski ham on rye 9140 a couple of days later my mother didnt leave to go job hunting, and it wasnt my day to go to the l. Bukowski never fails to suck me into his world and grips me like no other writer.