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Hand to Mouth

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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 farfetched 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.

Here are three plays that contain the seeds of inspiration for some of Auster's future work, a tabletop baseball game (complete with cards and rules), and a pseudonymous detective novel - the author's first full-length novel. Each is an example of Auster's effort to make money; each is an illustration of the artist's mind at work. The result is a book of manifold delights and discoveries, an autobiography that resembles no other.

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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pages
448

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Cover of: Hand to mouth
Hand to mouth: a chronicle of early failure
2003, Picador
in English - 1st Picador pbk. ed.
Cover of: Ppang kumnŭn tʻajagi
Ppang kumnŭn tʻajagi
2000, Yŏllin Chʻaektŭl
in Korean - Chʻopʻan
Cover of: Hand to Mouth
Hand to Mouth
November 16, 1998, Faber and Faber
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Hand to Mouth
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
October 19, 1998, Holt Paperbacks
Paperback in English
Cover of: Hand to Mouth
Hand to Mouth
April 6, 1998, Faber and Faber
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Hand to mouth
Hand to mouth: a chronicle of early failure
1997, Henry Holt
in English - 1st ed.

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
448
Dimensions
7.6 x 5 x 1.5 inches
Weight
9.9 ounces

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OL7857246M
ISBN 10
0571195970
ISBN 13
9780571195978
Library Thing
64141
Goodreads
75197

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"IN MY LATE TWENTIES and early thirties, I went through a period of several years when everything I touched turned to failure."

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