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Hand to Mouth
Paperback / softback
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Description
This is the story of a young writer's struggle to stay afloat. Paul Auster's memoir is essentially about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, he investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art, and in the process shares with readers of this book a series of adventures and encounters. The book ends with three of the longest footnotes in literary history, including a card game, a baseball thriller, and three unproduced short plays.
Author Biography
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in the United States in 1947. He graduated from Columbia University with an MA degree. In 1970 he worked as a merchant seaman on an Esso oil tanker. From 1971 to 1974 he lived in France, spending two years in Paris and one in Provence. After returning to New York in 1974, he began his writing career.Throughout the 1970s he wrote mainly poetry and essays which appeared in various magazines including the New York Review of Books. During the 1980s he concentrated on prose writing: a memoir and four novels were published.His screenplay Smoke and Blue in the Face was published in April 1996 to coincide with the release of the film, and in 1999 Faber published the screenplay Lulu on the Bridge. The Art of Hunger (a collection of essays, interviews and prose) and his Selected Poems were published in November 1998.He is the author of nine novels, including The New York Trilogy
Reviews"Delightful...A gracious and humane tale...One can only marvel at Auster's artistry. -T"he Boston Sunday Globe" "Auster writes in a voice so clear, so mesmerizing, and so profound...[he] is unafraid of his own power, precisely because he has acknowledged humiliation's alchemy, its way of letting words vibrate at whatever weird, golden velocity they wish, "Hand to Mouth "vibrates...beautiful." -Wayne Koestenbaum, "Bookforum" "Required, inspiring reading for Auster-holics and aspiring writers." -"Kirkus Reviews" "An engaging account of his early attempts to stay afloat as a writer...with a colorful cast of sharply etched characters who he meets along the way." -"Chicago Tribune" "As a cautionary tale for writers, this is a superb book." -"Publishers Weekly" "Delightful...A gracious and humane tale...One can only marvel at Auster's artistry. --T"he Boston Sunday Globe" "Auster writes in a voice so clear, so mesmerizing, and so profound...[he] is unafraid of his own power, precisely because he has acknowledged humiliation's alchemy, its way of letting words vibrate at whatever weird, golden velocity they wish, "Hand to Mouth "vibrates...beautiful." --Wayne Koestenbaum, "Bookforum" "Required, inspiring reading for Auster-holics and aspiring writers." --"Kirkus Reviews" "An engaging account of his early attempts to stay afloat as a writer...with a colorful cast of sharply etched characters who he meets along the way." --"Chicago Tribune" "As a cautionary tale for writers, this is a superb book." --"Publishers Weekly" " Delightful...A gracious and humane tale...One can only marvel at Auster' s artistry. -- T"he Boston Sunday Globe" " Auster writes in a voice so clear, so mesmerizing, and so profound...[he] is unafraid of his own power, precisely because he has acknowledged humiliation' s alchemy, its way of letting words vibrate at whatever weird, golden velocity they wish, "Hand to Mouth "vibrates...beautiful." -- Wayne Koestenbaum, "Bookforum" " Required, inspiring reading for Auster-holics and aspiring writers." -- "Kirkus Reviews" " An engaging account of his early attempts to stay afloat as a writer...with a colorful cast of sharply etched characters who he meets along the way." -- "Chicago Tribune" " As a cautionary tale for writers, this is a superb book." -- "Publishers Weekly"
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