Ham On Rye: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Charles Bukowski

'Christian Baskous' has narrated many audiobooks, including Ham on Rye and Born Yesterday. He is also a United States Army veteran, who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan.

'Ham on Rye is a compelling novel, one that speaks to the struggles of an American working-class protagonist. The narrator, an unnamed man in his mid-twenties, works as a dishwasher in Los Angeles for a sadistic boss and spends his nights hanging out at pool halls and bars...

For the first time in his life, Charles Bukowski had enough money to buy a gun and he got a job tending bar at some dive bar called the Dodge Lounge. He soon found out that he didn't need money from waitressing, but rather from writing, and so he wrote for six hours every day and became renowned as one of America's greatest underground fiction authors.

Charles Bukowski is an American author known for his autobiographical works, novels, poems and short stories. His work has been published in over 50 languages and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential authors in the history of literature. Much of Bukowski's work explores the darker aspects of human nature, sexuality, lowlife and existentialism. Ham on Rye is a story about a young man who leaves home with no money and starts out as a dishwasher to prove his worth. Failed at this he then moves on to manual labour and becomes a hobo until eventually falling into petty crime where he meets "the evil" that pushed him towards crime.

Charles Bukowski wrote about the conditions of America. He wrote about the seedy side of life; he wrote about poverty, alcohol and drugs. His novels are filled with short but intense monologues from people who live in this world. Baskous does a great job narrating Ham on Rye. This is not just an audiobook for people who love the book, or who love Charles Bukowski; it's an audiobook for everyone interested in how people can be brought to their lowest moments without losing hope, without giving up and without surrendering to despair.