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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure

by PaulAuster (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1998

    $7.14

  • Used

    Hardcover 1997

    $15.07
Synopsis

"One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer." (Le Monde). Hand to Mouth tells the story of the young Paul Auster's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Auster's memoir is essentially a book 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, in the process, treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters. The book ends with three of the longest footnotes in literary history: a card game, a thriller about baseball, and three short plays. Hand to Mouth is essential reading for anyone interested in Paul Auster, in the figure of the struggling artist, in the nature of poverty, or in baseball.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 16 Nov 1998
ISBN 10: 0571195970
ISBN 13: 9780571195978
Book Overview: Hand to Mouth is Paul Auster's startling memoir of his career as a young writer - and his accompanying struggle with poverty.

Media 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
Author Bio
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Moon Palace, Mr Vertigo, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.