Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
Michael Greenberg$17.00
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/02/2010
ISBN: 9780307740670
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.28w x 0.69d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/19/2010 pg. 20
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/02/2010
ISBN: 9780307740670
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.28w x 0.69d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/19/2010 pg. 20