Paul Auster
1) Oracle night
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Pub. Date
2003
Description
While recovering from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr finds himself trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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...
5) Sunset Park
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Pub. Date
2010
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
This is the story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially an autobiographical essay about money-and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and describes his ingenious, often far-fetched attempts to survive on next to nothing. From the streets of New York City and Paris...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
While recovering from a car accident at his daughter's home in Vermont, seventy two year old August Brill dreams up an alternate twenty first century reality where the results of the 2000 Presidential election resulted in the secession of various states and the events of September 11, 2001 never happened.
11) Winter journal
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Discusses the life and death of the author's mother and the effects of time and aging on one's body and memory, and reflects on the changes in sensory perception as the body ages.
12) Invisible
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Pub. Date
2009
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Description
Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"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--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
A vividly rendered, almost graphic-novel approach that is simultaneously funny, dark and emotionally moving. The fragments of text and art here add up to a kind of collage that reveals a portrait of "man's best friend" as he struggles to understand his old homeless master's life, and to learn what it means to fit into human society.
17) Moon palace
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
A novel with suspense, coincidences, tragedies, and flights of lyricism that follow Marco as he searches for love, his unknown father, and the elusive riddle of his origin and fate.