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On the High Wire
Contributor(s): Petit, Philippe (Author), Auster, Paul (Translator), Auster, Paul (Introduction by)

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 ISBN: 0811228649     ISBN-13: 9780811228640
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Literary Collections | European - French
Dewey: 796.46
LCCN: 2019007707
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.4" W x 7.1" L (0.20 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
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In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging of the wire, the walker's first steps, his salute and exercises, and the work of other renowned high-wire artists, Petit offers us a book about the ecstasy of conquering our fears and reaching for the stars.

Contributor Bio(s): Auster, Paul: - A critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and translator, Paul Auster lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of many novels, including 4321, The New York Trilogy, and City of Glass. New Directions publishes his Red Notebook as well as his translations of Stephane Mallarmé's A Tomb for Anatole and Philippe Petit's On the High Wire.Auster, Paul: - A critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and translator, Paul Auster lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of many novels, including 4321, The New York Trilogy, and City of Glass. New Directions publishes his Red Notebook as well as his translations of Stephane Mallarmé's A Tomb for Anatole and Philippe Petit's On the High Wire.Petit, Philippe: - Philippe Petit (b. 1949) is a French high-wire artist whose celebrated walk between the Twin Towers was the subject of the Academy-Award winning film Man on Wire. He is also the author of Why Knot?, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers, and Creativity: The Perfect Crime.
 
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