false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255670245m/6344456.jpg 6344456 3 To the literary elite, Michael Greenberg has always been known for his trenchant and moving columns that appear biweekly in the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>. But when critics hailed his memoir <i>Hurry Down Sunshine </i>as a classic, Greenberg became a household name. <i>Black Suit, Worn Once $45 </i>is an autobiography in installments, set in NewYork, where the author depicts the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft, or simply stay alive. He finds himself writing about golf, a game that he never played; doctoring doomed movie scripts; driving trucks and taxis; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women’s department store; and botching his debut as a waiter in a coveted five-star restaurant.<br><br>Central characters include the City of All Cities; Michael’s father, whose scrap metal business looms large; his elegant mother; his first wife, Robin, whom he met in a Greenwich Village high school; their son, Aaron, who grew up on the Lower East Side; a repentant communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War; a Chilean filmmaker in search of his past; rats who behave like humans; beggars who are poets; a man who becomes a woman; and a woman who prefers to live underground. Greenberg creates a world where the familial, the incongruous, the literary, the humorous, the tragic, and the prosaic not only speak to each other, but deeply enjoy the exchange.<br><br>Praising Greenberg and his column in the <i>New York Times</i>, Rachel Donadio wrote: “Imagine The Talk of the Town as if written by Dostoyevsky.” This is an entirely original book, whose writing is magical<br>and whose insights are deceptively profound. 6530671 book 8 9 2009 Black Suit, Worn Once $45: True Stories total:20|5:3|4:8|3:8|2:1|1:0| 20 73 91 9 4 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 19:44:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 13:34:01 -0700 2009
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