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Title: A favorite; Bukowski widsom
Review: This is a great book. It outlines young age in a way seldom seen in film and literature. It is dark, true, and a vivid read, depicting youth in all its colors-- or the ones Chinaski, A.K. Bukowski, "Laureate of Skid Row", it seems breathed.It tells young Chinaski's tale from birth to about 20, whereupon, from battling daily a "sadistic" father, or just living an isolated or pensive, vulgar childhood, he hit the US roads, entering into a sort of Kerouaic, boozy and starved depression-era existence.The meaning, Ham on Rye, stands for-- that I got from, from [his] friend/editor John Martin, in the film biography on the author Born Into This,-- either the economy-style sandwich, or a ham or showboat-type fellow on rye whiskey. It sums up the tale in a small way.Overall great read, I read it 3 or 4 times; one of Bukowski's best novels.
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