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Title	:	Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
Author	:	Paul Auster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2003 by Picador (first published January 1st 1996)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Literature. Language. Writing. American

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure

Paul Auster

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 2437 Users | 200 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
ISBN:	0312422326 (ISBN13: 9780312422325)
Edition Language:	English

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"In the three and a half years I lived in France, I had any number of jobs, bounced from one part-time gig to another, freelanced until I was blue in the face. When I didn't have work, I was looking for work. When I had work, I was thinking about how to find more. Even at the best of times, I rarely earned enough to feel secure, and yet in spite of one or two close calls, I managed to avoid total ruin. It was, as they say, a hand-to-mouth existence...."Rather than lament failure, Hand to Mouth

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure, Paul AusterPaul 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

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure, Paul AusterPaul 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

What can I say? I like Auster's writing style. I just read a one-star Goodreads review of this book and she makes good points; Auster doesn't really bring anybody to life, it's true, but for some reason I couldn't put this book down. I suppose his writing is very readable and leads to the next thing and then the next, kind of like his novels which don't really go anywhere but while you're going it's an interesting journey.

This is a 3.5 and I'm rounding up because it's Paul Auster. The first part is a memoir of his early days as a struggling author. It was beautiful written and more straight forward than a regular Paul Auster story. The rest of the book is comprised of some of his early works--two plays and a short detective story--that weren't successful before he became PAUL AUSTER, novelist. One of my friends wondered why we should read them now when they weren't any good back then, and there is something to

I thought this book would be comforting to me, as I was a hopeless and unemployed new graduate when I read it. Made me feel so much worse! He was consistently employed at interesting jobs, and going to Paris and crap.

Paul Auster feels guilty about this middle class background. He wants to be a writer and nothing else. He does a bit of travelling. Takes on a number of odd jobs. Desperately tries to avoid the nine to five world.He works on an oil tanker, does freelance translations in Paris. He even translates the North-Vietnamese Constitution from French to English, is sent to Mexico to ghostwrite a novel that never sees the light of day. Eventually he becomes so strapped for cash he designs a card game