Ham on Rye

Name: Ham on Rye
Author: Charles Bukowski

by Charles Bukowski

Semiautobiographical novel of a young man's experiences during Depression-era poverty

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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski was a Los Angeles underground writer whose fiction and poetry of skid row, horse racing, and cheap rooming houses found a vast international audience. Post Office and Factotum are his major novels.

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Post OfficeNovel depicting the bleakness and absurdity of working at the post office
FactotumPicaresque novel following a man through jobs, women, and urban alienation
WomenNovel chronicling a man's serial affairs and relationships with various women
HollywoodNovel about a screenplay writer's cynical pursuit of success in Hollywood