Charles Bukowski - Bread and ham. Gift book bound in leather.

Charles Bukowski is an American writer, poet, novelist and journalist of German origin. A representative of the so-called "dirty realism". He is the author of more than two hundred short stories included in sixteen collections, six novels and more than thirty poetry books.

Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, the author of more than forty books, including novels, poems, essays and short stories. Despite the sometimes shocking naturalism, his texts are full of lyricism, even a kind of sentimentality.

"Bread and Ham" is Bukowski's most heartfelt novel. Like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, it is written from the point of view of an impressionable child dealing with the duplicity, pretentiousness and vanity of the adult world. A child gradually discovering alcohol and women, gambling and bruising, D. G. Lawrence and Hemingway, Turgenev and Dostoevsky.