Chapter 10 Summary

Henry loses his job and must return to conning and begging to survive. Since he has experience at doing this sort of thing, he feels that things will turn out well enough. Tania cannot help him, because she sends her money to Sylvester, and she will not compromise her position by letting Henry stay with her. He performs freelance writing for a mathematician who does not speak English but needs to publish in the language, plus other writing tasks for other businesses and scholars. He poses for pornographic photos and befriends the photographer. Through the photographer Henry meets a sculptor named Kruger who provides a place to sleep in his studio. Although not as talented as his wife, Kruger's work earns Henry's admiration, because he works hard at his art. Henry becomes ill just before an important exhibition of Kruger's work and must...