Hand to Mouth : A Chronicle of Early Failure - Softcover

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.

"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"