Title: Scumbler - Softcover

Wharton, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881841358 ISBN 13: 9780881841350

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1985

Synopsis

Know Scumbler in his poignant, hilarious life. Get mad at him and even cry with him. Here's Don Quixote, Santa Claus, and Faust rolled into one "thick shadow" of a man. A joyous sixty-year-old American street painter lives on the Left Bank in Paris, making a living by creating rentable apartments out of the most unlikely spaces. Mostly, however, he paints with utter delight in the creative act and discovers remarkable characters along his path: crafts-men, students, prostitutes, motorcyclists. He scumbles and fails. He digs twisting tunnels under Paris streets and builds nests: nature nests, rats' nests, birds' nests. He collects clocks and designs his own life from the "inside." Wanting to be true beyond honesty, visible past seeing to being, Scumbler scrambles, tumbles, rumbles, rambles through the ecstatic pleasure of creation and the pangs of ordinary existence.

About this title

Review:

‘An enjoyable rompint book’ – Guardian

‘Racy, pacy and often eye-wateringly funny’ – Standard

‘Even better than ‘Birdy’’ – Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

A self-described painter who writes, William Wharton is the pen name for the author of two memoirs--Houseboat on the Seine and Ever After--as well as eight novels--Birdy, Dad, A Midnight Clear, Scumbler, Pride, Tidings, Franky Furbo, and Last Lovers. His works have been acclaimed worldwide and have been translated into over fifteen languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0881841358
• ISBN 13: 9780881841350
• Binding: Paperback