Author: GREENBERG, MICHAEL
Title: Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, UK. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9781408809518 240 pages. Available Now. Book Description: In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practise his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department store; writing about golf, a game he has never played; and botching his debut as a waiter in a posh restaurant.: Central characters include Michael's father, whose prediction that Michael's 'scribbling' wouldn't get him on the subway almost came true; his artistic first wife, whom he met in a Greenwich Village high school; and their son who grew up on the Lower East Side, fluent in the language of the street. Then there are Greenberg's unexpected encounters: a Holocaust survivor who, on his deathbed, tries to leave Michael his fortune; a repentant communist who confesses his sins; a man who becomes a woman; a Chilean film-maker in search of his past; and rats who behave like humans and cease to live underground.: 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. : Review: 'Michael Greenberg, a native New Yorker, loves the city as a child loves a parent, and in its honour he has put together a collection of tightly written, incisive chapters, each another tessera or tile in a big mosaic ... Michael Greenberg is an acute observer' (Edmund White, New York Times): 'Greenberg is a poet of New York, evoking in these fleeting pieces the city in all its scuffed and squalid grandeur' (Washington Post): 'They are short snapshots of memoir, beautifully observed ... This is the perfect bedside book split, as it is, into neat insomniac chunks' (Scott Pack, Me and My Big Mouth): 'Imagine The Talk of the Town as if written by Dostoyevsky' (New York Times Book Review) : Book Description: An unusual and captivating memoir by the acclaimed author of Hurry Down Sunshine Size: 12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm. 240 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Paperback; ISBN: 1408809516. ISBN/EAN: 9781408809518. Inventory No: F245-1256.

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