Travels with Lizbeth
Author: Lars Eighner
Category: Other
Published: 1993
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Read OnlineA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets is Lars Eighner's account of his descent into homelessness and his adventures on the streets that has moved, charmed, and amused generations of readers.Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"When I began writing this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park. I did not undertake to write about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paints a still life, not because he is especially fond of fruit, but because the subject is readily at hand." Containing the widely anthologized essay "On Dumpster Diving," Travels with Lizbeth is a beautifully written 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. In...
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