Henry Chinaski, an outcast, loner, and hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another, and from one bottle to the next. Reprint. (An IFC film, directed by Bent Hamer, written by Bent Hamer & Jim Stark, releasing August 2006, starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, & Marisa Tomei) (General Fiction)

Modern fiction"Bukowski has created in Ham on Rye a deeply incisive and semi-autobiographical account of Henry Chinaski and his turbulent life. A must read" GQ. Introduction by Roddy Doyle.