Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
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Michael Greenberg entertainingly chronicles the hardships, delights, and moral dilemmas of being a writer and a New Yorker in this "darkly comic" essay collection (The New York Review of Books).
To eke out a living, Greenberg doctors doomed movie scripts, peddles cosmetics on the street, and waits tables at a posh restaurant, all while raising his son on the Lower East Side. Along the way, he meets a host of fascinating city characters, including a Holocaust survivor, a repentant communist, and rats who behave like humans.
Hilarious and bittersweet, Greenberg's stories invite us into a world where the familial, the literary, the tragic, and the mundane not only speak to one another, but deeply enjoy the exchange.
To eke out a living, Greenberg doctors doomed movie scripts, peddles cosmetics on the street, and waits tables at a posh restaurant, all while raising his son on the Lower East Side. Along the way, he meets a host of fascinating city characters, including a Holocaust survivor, a repentant communist, and rats who behave like humans.
Hilarious and bittersweet, Greenberg's stories invite us into a world where the familial, the literary, the tragic, and the mundane not only speak to one another, but deeply enjoy the exchange.
PUBLISHER:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10:
0307740676
ISBN-13:
9780307740670
BINDING:
Paperback
BISAC:
History
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2010
NUMBER OF PAGES:
240
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
0.71(H) x 5.17(W) x 7.99(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English