Bread with Ham

Charles Bukowski — one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, author of more than forty books, including novels, poetry, essays, and stories. Despite sometimes shockingly realistic portrayals, his texts are full of lyricism, even a peculiar sentimentality. "Bread with Ham" — the most poignant novel by Bukowski. Like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye", it is written from the perspective of an impressionable child dealing with the duplicity, pretentiousness, and vanity of the adult world. A child who gradually discovers alcohol and women, gambling and fighting, D. H. Lawrence and Hemingway, Turgenev and Dostoevsky.