Writer in residence : memoir of a literary translator /
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| Author / Creator: | Spitzer, Mark, 1965- |
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| Imprint: | [New Orleans] : UNO Press, c2010. |
| Description: | 203 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8681234 |
| Summary: | Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. An American translating punk in Paris living at the infamous Bohemian bookstore Shakespeare & Co. hooks up with a bipolar nymphomaniac who puts him through a mental sausage grinder. Enter the cops, hippy chicks, black hash, crazy old men, a major deluge, and a host of whacko international freaks and street people. Then POW!, the ultimate betrayal. This is the third memoir in an autobiographical series. "The poetry-intoxicated hero of Spitzer's breathless saga runs smack up into history just as she's changing her dress in the now-fabulous Paris of the late 20th century, and the result is electric. His choleric and vivid voice brings to life a story both breathless with life-dew and masterfully vivid, in the lineage of Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac, but in the tradition of Don Quixote, the timeless dreamer headed for the turbulent phantasm of art"--Andrei Codrescu. |
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| Physical Description: | 203 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781608010202 1608010201 |
