SMOKE & BLUE IN THE FACE: Two Film Scripts by Paul Auster

Auster, Paul; Wang, Wayne (preface)

ISBN 10: 0786880988 / ISBN 13: 9780786880980

Published by Miramax Books/Hyperion, New York, NY, 1995

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Text/BRAND NEW w/a red star shaped stamp to fEP. Two screenplays, Smoke, and, Blue in the Face, from prolific, award winning author & director Paul Auster (1947 - 2024) of The New York Trilogy (1987) fame. 1995 First Edition, 1st Printing. Softcover/ Fine. Lives of New Yorkers whose community center is a mom-and-pop cigar shop in Brooklyn, New York. "Smoke" is of several people, all of whom patronize the same, small Brooklyn tobacco shop (16th Street and Prospect Park West), managed by Auggie. "Blue in the Face" --- a sequel of sorts --- is set in the same shop, still managed by Auggie, w/many new characters including the store owner's wife who attempts to seduce Auggie; the film version of which featured guest appearances of Auggie. Madonna, Michael J. Fox, Lily Tomlin, and Lou Reed (as himself).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SMOKE & BLUE IN THE FACE: Two Film Scripts by Paul Auster
• Publisher: Miramax Books/Hyperion, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786880988
• ISBN 13: 9780786880980
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: K.C. Bailey; Barry Welcher (Photographers)
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthology
  • Film, Cinema, Movies, Television
  • Performing Arts, Plays, Opera, Dance, Music

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Synopsis

An array of New Yorkers become involved with a mom-and-pop cigar shop in Brooklyn in an acclaimed short story, presented here along with interviews with the author and the film's actors and a description of the process of creating a film. Original. Movie tie-in.

About the Author

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.