Hand to Mouth

A Chronicle of Early Failure

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by Paul Auster

Henry Holt and Co.

Due/Published September 1998, 464 pages, paper

ISBN 0805054898

New in paper!

Auster's memoir of his early years--a story of a young man's desire to make art and to stay afloat. We are treated to his adventures and failures from Manhattan and Paris to upstate New York and, in several appendices, previously unknown work from these years (three plays, a pseudonymous mystery novel, and a ? tabletop baseball game?.