Charles Буковски - one of the largest American writers of the XX century, author more than forty books, among that novels, verses, эссеистика and stories. In spite of sometimes shocking naturalism, his texts are full lyricism, even to original sentimentality."Bread with a ham" is the most heartfelt novel of Буковски. Like "Adventures of Гекльберри of Финна" and "Fisherman in rye", he is written from the point of view of impressionable child having business with duplicity, pretentiousness and vanity of the adult world. Child, gradually opening for itself an alcohol and women, gaming and мордобой.