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Travels with Lizbeth

Travels with Lizbeth Paperback / softback - 2013

by Lars Eighner

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With his dog, Lizbeth, Lars Eighner was homeless on the streets of America. In his unique voice--wry, spare, comic--he created an unforgettable memoir that has been widely acclaimed and compared to Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Kerouac's On the Road.

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Paperback / softback. New. Offers an account of one man's experience of homelessness, a story of physical survival, and the triumph of the artistic spirit in the face of enormous adversity.
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  • Title Travels with Lizbeth
  • Author Lars Eighner
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York, NY
  • Date 2013-12-03
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9781250036254
  • ISBN 9781250036254 / 1250036259
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Homelessness - United States, Homeless persons - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the jacket flap

"Remarkable . . . irresistibly funny." The New Yorker
The true story of a modern Robinson Crusoe and Huckleberry Finn, a homeless man and his erstwhile companion, a dog named Lizbeth, and their unbelievable, funny and poignant adventures on the road and on the streets.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 08/26/2013, Page 0

About the author

Lars Eighner was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, grew up in Houston, and lived primarily in Austin, Texas. He chronicled his (and his dog's) experiences with homelessness in his critically acclaimed memoir Travels with Lizbeth, which includes the often-cited essay "On Dumpster Diving." It was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and the Times named the book one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the last 50 years. Eighner's other works include an essay collection, numerous story collections and the novel Pawn to Queen Four.