Paul Auster
1) Baumgartner
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time" – New York Times
Paul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor –
...Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
- An urgent investigation into an ever-timelier topic at the forefront of the national news cycle that asks: What kind of society do we want to live in?
- A personal take on the trauma and effects of gun violence that offers a unique vulnerability and authenticity from one of America’s strongest literary voices – major media attention expected
- In the five days following
...Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent...
12) Winter journal
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Facing his sixty-third winter, novelist Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations. He takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening of sexual desire to the ever deepening bonds of married love; from meditations on eating and sleeping to an account of his mother's sudden death.
13) Sunset Park
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.