num_pages: 436
description: Hand to Mouth The story of a young writer's struggle to stay afloat. Paul Auster's memoir is essentially a book about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, he investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art. Full description
language: English
title: Hand to Mouth : A Chronicle of Failure
titlecomplete: Hand to Mouth : A Chronicle of Failure
genres: American, Biography, Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction, The United States Of America, Writing, Memoir, Contemporary, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 3007
publisher: Gardners Books