| Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure Contributor(s): Auster, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312422326 ISBN-13: 9780312422325 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: From the streets of New York City, Dublin, and Paris to a surreal adventure in a dusty village in Mexico, Auster's account of living on next to nothing introduces an unforgettable cast of characters while examining what it means to be a writer. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003040573 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 169 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggling to be published, and to make enough money to survive. Leaving high school with itchy feet and refusing to play it safe, Auster avoided convention and the double life of steady office employment while writing. From the streets of New York City, Dublin, and Paris to a surreal adventure in a dusty village in Mexico, Auster's account of living on next to nothing introduces an unforgettable cast of characters while examining what it means to be a writer. |
Contributor Bio(s): Auster, Paul: - Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. "Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts."--Timothy Peters, San Francisco Chronicle |