Hand to mouth : a chronicle of early failure / Paul Auster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auster, Paul, 1947-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auster, Paul, 1947-2024--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.

Auster, Paul.

Auster, Paul, 1947-2024--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.

Auster, Paul, 1947-2024.

Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Americans.

Authorship--Economic aspects.

Authorship.

France--Paris.

History.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt, 1997.

Summary:

This is the story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially an autobiographical essay about money--and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and describes his ingenious, often far-fetched attempts to survive on next to nothing. From the streets of New York City and Paris to the rural roads of upstate New York, the author treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters and, in several elaborate appendixes, to previously unknown work from these years.

ISBN:

0805054065

OCLC:

36201335