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Hand to Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure Paperback - 1998

by Paul Auster


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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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  • Title Hand to Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure
  • Author Paul Auster
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 464
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 19, 1998
  • ISBN 9780805054897

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Paul Auster is the author of eight novels, including the New York Trilogy. He wrote the screenplay for the internationally acclaimed film Smoke and has just finished making a new film, Lulu on the Bridge. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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