ham on rye

I saw this today and I'm wondering what the remote desert - or a trailer home - has to do with Ham on Rye. Seems like Ham on Rye has had more (English language) covers than any other Bukowski title... That last one is especially awful.

I would love to hear anyone's recommendation for their dream introduction to Ham on Rye. Living people please.

Well I'll be a son of a b****, Ham On Rye was the first book I finished cover to cover in what feels like an eternity and I did it in a matter of days which I hope conveys how much I loved it. I said in my introductory thread that I had not been this excited by a work since Dostoyevsky's Crime...