{"product_id":"travels-with-lizbeth-three-years-on-the-road-and-on-the-streets-9781250036254","title":"Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Lars Eighner is the Thoreau of the Dumpsters. Comparisons to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Hamsun's Hunger leap to mind. A classic of down-and-out literature.\" --Phillip Lopate \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eTravels with Lizbeth\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1993, it was proclaimed an instant classic. Lars Eighner's account of his descent into homelessness and his adventures on the streets has moved, charmed, and amused generations of readers. As Lars wrote, \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContaining the widely anthologized essay \"On Dumpster Diving,\" \u003ci\u003eTravels with Lizbeth\u003c\/i\u003e 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 his unique voice--dry, disciplined, poignant, comic--Eighner celebrates the companionship of his dog, Lizbeth, and recounts their ongoing struggle to survive on the streets of Austin, Texas, and hitchhiking along the highways to Southern California and back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLars Eighner\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTravels with Lizbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, which includes the often-cited essay \"On Dumpster Diving.\" It was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice and the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePawn to Queen Four\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527527338258,"sku":"9781250036254","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6225ef36-39fa-4bd5-986d-3ad98a7b6c76.jpg?v=1731304702","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/travels-with-lizbeth-three-years-on-the-road-and-on-the-streets-9781250036254","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}