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Panino al prosciutto
Panino al prosciutto | Charles Bukowski
NUOVA TRADUZIONE DI SIMONA VICIANI Tra le periferie di una Los Angeles prostrata dalla Grande Depressione degli anni Trenta, Henry Chinaski vive il suo romanzo di formazione, le inquietudini di adolescente ribelle alle prese con lincapacit di venire a patti con il mondo che lo circonda e con il suo stesso bruciante desiderio di libert. Isolato tanto in famiglia quanto tra i suoi coetanei, picchiato dal padre e deriso da quelli che vorrebbe come amici, incapace di avvicinarsi alluniverso femminile, Chinaski compie con rabbia la sua crescita intellettuale e sentimentale: in pochi anni brucia le illusioni di ricchezza e benessere del padre cos come il perbenismo della madre, rifiuta una per una le proprie amicizie, affronta beffardamente la frustrazione dei suoi primi desideri damore. Ma allo stesso tempo scopre la biblioteca pubblica e la compagnia impareggiabile dei libri, il conforto dellalcol, linutilit della scuola e le possibilit di riscatto riservategli dalla scrittura. Panino al prosciutto quindi soprattutto la storia di un affrancamento dalla casa del padre e dal mondo di tutti i padri, un viaggio adolescenziale verso la libert che lautore ci narra con il suo stile unico, acre, sarcastico, ma anche sottilmente e teneramente disperato. Nato ad Andernach, in Germania, nel 1920, Charles Bukowski emigr negli Stati Uniti con la famiglia all'et di due anni e visse a lungo a Los Angeles. scomparso nel 1994. Presso Guanda sono usciti: Factotum, Donne, Taccuino di un vecchio sporcaccione, Confessioni di un codardo, A sud di nessun nord, Le ragazze che seguivamo, Post Office, Niente canzoni damore, Lamore un cane che viene dallinferno, E cos vorresti fare lo scrittore?, Una notte niente male, Cena a sbafo, Tutti gli anni buttati via, So benissimo quanto ho peccato, Ehi, Kafka!, Il crimine paga sempre, Ce lhanno tutti con me, Una torrida giornata dagosto, Mentre Buddha sorride, Una donna sulla strada e Sui gatti.
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Staci
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Pickpick

This book is funny but crude, and I couldn't put it down. It's not for everyone.

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Schwifty
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Pickpick

So it turns out there are five novels about Bukowski‘s alter-ego protagonist and I had already read Post Office albeit out of order. So I decided to start from the beginning with this one. It‘s all about Henry‘s childhood and teen years growing up with an antagonistic father and as an outcast lower class kid trying to survive the school yard in a rich, upper class school. It‘s just as raunchy, irreverent, funny and blunt as you‘d expect.

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GatheringBooks
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Jackdt02
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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TheNeverendingTBR Hilarious book! 4y
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Dazen
Pickpick

Es ist ein gutes Buch. Kein Must-Have, aber gut.

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Dazen
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Freu mich schon bald zu lesen.

Buechersuechtling Oh ja. Das kann ich mir vorstellen. Würde ich auch gern lesen. 4y
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GatheringBooks
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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#QuotsyJan19 Day 7: People‘s sense of #Injustice is always skewed to one‘s own perspective.

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DavidThePavid
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Nice

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britt_brooke
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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📖 Ham on Rye
📝 Joseph Heller
🎬 Harold and Kumar go to White Castle (total guilty pleasure)
🔥hot wings

#manicmonday #letterh

JoScho 🖤🖤🖤 6y
Leftcoastzen 👏👏👏👏❤️ 6y
Guildedearlobe Harold and Kumar! No reason to feel guilty about that pleasure. Now White Castle is a whole different story. 6y
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Jason7
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Pickpick

Hilarious novel from the master himself. Not for the politically correct. Overall rating: 4.65 stars

Trashcanman Great book Bukowski's amazing. Welcome to Litsy 6y
Jason7 Yea, he is one of my favorites. Thanks! 6y
britt_brooke Love the Bukowskis I‘ve read thus far! 6y
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jveezer
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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The big review of the Prototype Press edition (with purty pictures) is up on my blog at www.thewholebookexperience.com. Example illustration above by Sean StarWars.

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jveezer
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Mehso-so

Ugh. I‘m not sure what to think about this book. The best thing was reading it in the beautiful edition from Prototype Press. I want to say this is white teen angst defined but it‘s not really; Henry has good reason to feel bitter and hopeless. CB does a great job of portraying that with brutally direct prose. Henry is a realist who sees some truths about justice, war, education, relationships, etc. But he, and the book, are hard to like.

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jveezer
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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This is where the #bookporn happens. Taking pics of the Prototype Press edition for the review on my blog. Ham on Rye? Order up soon! #finepress #letterpress

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jveezer
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Sun setting as I read this magnificent edition of Bukowski. I might like the book (as an object) better than the writing, but we'll see how that pans out...

lalatiburona This is pretty cool. 7y
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jveezer
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Humbled by the generosity of the Prototype Press in allowing me to review their new fine press edition of Ham On Rye. My first Bukowski novel and I'm already high in the smell of the handmade cotton paper. So excited! #finepress #Bukowski

Leftcoastzen Oh that‘s very cool! Love Ham on Rye. 7y
Faibka Wow, how cool! 7y
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GripLitGrl
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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"The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in tgere, nothing ever occurred in there, no people nothing."
#quotsyjan18 #Nothing @TK-421

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AndjoSant
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Pickpick

Ham on Rye is unrelenting in detailing the setbacks. The heartaches. The feeling of having the whole world against you. And the eventual feeling of indifference to it all. Bukowski tells his story in a brutally simple style. In short blunt sentences. This makes the novel sublime. #toughguybookclub #tgbc #bukowski #hamonrye #breakfast

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KellyMuser
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Chinaski, on his first time getting drunk: “I thought, ‘Well, now I have found something, I have found something that is going to help me, for a long long time to come.‘”

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McFarchie
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Pickpick

Damn I loved this book. Bukowski was the master of the blunt short sentence 🤘🏽Sometimes you just have to write what you mean.

britt_brooke I just read this a couple of weeks ago and loved it, too. 👍🏻 7y
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britt_brooke
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"I was just a 50-cent turd floating around in the green ocean of life."

This was my first #Bukowski and I enjoyed the hell out of it. The semi-autobiographical Hank Chinaski is kind of an asshole. He's crude, brutal, and cynical, yet oddly endearing. He fights, he drinks (A LOT), he devours great literature. I need more, please!

#Factotum is on deck.

batsy Can relate to turd metaphor. I've never read him and it's clear that I should... 7y
britt_brooke @batsy 😆 There are some pretty fantastic lines in this book. This was my first time reading him (well, I've read one of his poetry collections, so this was my first novel). I was surprised by how much I liked it! 7y
ValerieAndBooks I've only read his poetry-- need to check this out!! 7y
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rubyslippersreads I'm probably in the minority, but that first line lets me know he's not for me. 😏 7y
britt_brooke @ValerieAndBooks I need to check out more of him, period! 😁 His only poetry I've read is the collection On Love, but I liked it. 7y
britt_brooke @rubyslippersreads He's definitely not for everyone. Very crude at times. 7y
rubyslippersreads @britt_brooke Crude is not for me. But I think he did like cats. 😸 7y
britt_brooke @rubyslippersreads Yes, there's a whole collection about them! 😻 7y
StephBengtson I need to reread this.. and everything he's ever written. 7y
alvingregorio I've only read "Post Office" and it was some crazy stuff. 7y
britt_brooke @alvingregorio This one was a little crazy, too. I'm reading Factotum next, then Post Office, etc. My plan is to read the Henry Chinaski stories in chronological order. 7y
KittenHoliday I love this book! There are some hilarious quotes too! 7y
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Hollie
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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I'm dropping these off at the little free library at work today, so hopefully there can be #someoneelsereading soon! My bookshelf now has a little more room for those BOTM books I can't seem to resist! #fallintobooks

Cinfhen #payingitforward 💗💗💗 7y
Hollie @Cinfhen it's fun to be a book fairy! 7y
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britt_brooke
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💚💚💚

JaclynW 💕Words!💕 7y
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britt_brooke
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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I don't usually plan a monthly #TBR, but I know for sure I'll finish four I still have in progress from August. More "rye" than usual. ? #HamOnRye #TheCatcherInTheRye #Cherry #LabGirl
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#AwesomeAutumnBooks

vivastory You could really go all out & have rye whiskey while you read them 🙃 7y
britt_brooke @vivastory Good plan, haha! 7y
RealBooks4ever On a Mary Karr kick? 😄👍🏼 7y
britt_brooke @RealBooks4ever Yes! I can't seem to get enough. 😁 7y
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GirlChandler
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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HELLO BOOKPEOPLE HOW YA DOING TONIGHT?!??! (I'm in Austin.)

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youneverarrived
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Probably not the first person to think of when you think of #workaholics but he was a prolific writer writing thousands of poems and writing every night #jubilantjuly

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Readytogo
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed.
😂😂😂

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Lumaro
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski

Anyone read Ham on Rye? Thoughts?

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Abailliekaras
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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Catching up from a few days ago... I can't decide between the paisley leotard or the smoking Buddha...
#MarchIntoReading #crazycovers

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britt_brooke
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KafkaKitten Love Bukowski! ❤ 8y
britt_brooke @KafkaKitten I've never read any of his books, but I bought this recently and plan to change that soon! 8y
KafkaKitten @britt_brooke Ham on Rye is a great starter! I also strongly recommend Post Office. And all of his poetry. 8y
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jveezer
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Coming soon from the Prototype Press, a fine small press edition. Hope ti get my paws on it!

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GoneFishing
Ham on Rye (Revised) | Charles Bukowski

Something had happened. The bath towels knew it, the bathtub and the toilet knew it. My father turned and walked out the door. He knew it. It was my last beating. From him.

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GoneFishing
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the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

ptkpepe98 Sadly, too true. 8y
Suet624 So, so true. 8y
Anna40 Ham on Rye is one of my favorite books! 8y
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GoneFishing
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

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reading-addict.94
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She reads books as one would breath air to fill up and live.

#bukowski #books #hamonrye

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GoneFishing
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What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

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SpecsyBeast
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I work in Japan and thought it would be funny to use this quote in one of our conversations (I don't know how the topic came up. It just kinda happened.) and it unfortunately didn't translate well so now my coworkers think I'm gross. #ThanksBukowski #quotes #internationalfail #Japan #travel

Tsubame Haha I work in Japan too and can imagine 😁 8y
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Beccabeanss
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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new book by a straight white male!!! will it be sexist?? probably!! will it be so well-written that i can't help but like it??? also probably!!!

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tea_stankovic
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tea_stankovic
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

ephemeralwaltz 🙌🙌 8y
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tea_stankovic
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One sunny Thursday

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Ksvz
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Bailedbailed

DNF Audio I gave it 10% and could not finish it. Wasn't my thing. I enjoyed Clockwork Orange far better and it was too similar not to make the comparison. Shame

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Belles
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski
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My sister sent me some birthday books! I love what other people pick out for me. Plus the sister peoples!

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Megen
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Mehso-so

The story of a pessimistic outcast going through his early years. Very easy read, pretty entertaining at parts, a lot of interesting insight as to how he views the world based on his personal struggles. Probably read the two follow ups at some point.

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Megen
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Oblomov26
Ham on Rye: A Novel | Charles Bukowski

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished.

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HungryGinger
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Enjoying some classic Bukowski under psychedelic threads.

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jsore64
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So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools.

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