Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

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.