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Hand to mouth: a chronicle of early failure

Door Paul Auster

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#112995
Titel
Hand to mouth: a chronicle of early failure
Auteur
Auster, Paul
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Henry Holt, New York
Jaar van uitgave
1997
ISBN10
0805054065
ISBN13
9780805054064
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
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 ca... (Lees verder)rds 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.
Pagina's
449
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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