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Paul Auster
A late masterpiece of love, memory and grief by Paul Auster, 'one of the great American prose stylists of our time'.
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Includes three cleverly interconnected novels, that contains stories in which the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately…
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Meet Mr Bones, canine sidekick to the brilliant but troubled Willy G. Christmas.
Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of…
Shortlisted 2017 Man Booker Prize: Paul Auster’s first novel in seven years - his greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking and most satisfying work.
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Paul Auster’s Collected Poems is a stunning collection of poetry and writings by one of the most intriguing and accomplished voices in contemporary literature - now in paperback.
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An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration with…
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Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and…
A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.
Paul Auster, Spencer Ostrander
A stunning examination - through words and images - of the epidemic of mass shootings in America today.
An intimate, unforgettable series of photographs by Spencer Ostrander documenting American gun violence, interwoven with writing by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The…
Hand to Mouth is Paul Auster's startling memoir of his career as a young writer - and his accompanying struggle with poverty.
An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and genuine American original (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration with…
A compelling story of love and forgiveness, from the bestselling author of The Brooklyn Follies.
A dazzling and picaresque novel.
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James Peacock
Peacock suggests that in the aftermath of 9/11, much of Auster’s fiction places even greater importance on sympathetic relations with ordinary individuals and advocates through artistic endeavors the merits of…
Paul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted…
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Chris Wade
Writer, musician, and filmmaker Chris Wade explores the bibliography of his favourite author, Paul Auster. In a series of essays, Wade delves deep into such seminal novels as 4 3…
A collection of interviews that covers all of Paul Auster’s oeuvre, from The New York Trilogy to Sunset Park (2010), along with his screenplays for Smoke (1995) and Blue in…
Brendan Martin (City University, UK)
Provides a critique of Paul Auster’s writings.
Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, the author now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his…
Includes the original text and English translations for poems by Apollinaire, Cendrars, Breton, Tzara, Prevert, and Michaux.
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Marco Stanley Fogg is entering the world of adulthood when astronauts set foot on the moon. He was educated by eccentric Uncle Victor. At the dawn of the lunar era…
The Music of Chance follows Jim Nashe who, after squandering an unexpected inheritance, picks up a young gambler named Jack Pozzi hoping to con two millionaires. But when their plans…
Two stories which have been made into films. In Smoke a novelist, suffering from writer’s block and the violent death of his wife, is inspired by a young black boy…
A reprinting in a cloth edition of the great trilogy by noted novelist Paul Auster.
Walter Claireborne Rawley, renowned as Walt the Wonder Boy, is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by a mysterious Hungarian Jew, Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk…
Quinn, a mystery writer, becomes involved in a puzzling case, Blue is hired by White to spy on Black, and Fanshawe, a gifted novelist, disappears, leaving his family and work…
Paul Auster has brought a sense of restless invention to the art of screenwriting, producing Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge and The Inner Life of Martin…
One day in 1990 on the Wisconsin highway, a bomb goes off in the hand of a man. But somebody knows who he was, and with the FBI closely on…
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only…
Anna Blume, searching for her brother who has disappeared, recounts her wanderings through a modern urban reprise of the Dark Ages where she becomes a member of a scavenger class…
From the streets of New York City, Dublin, and Paris to a surreal adventure in a dusty village in Mexico, Auster’s account of living on next to nothing introduces an…
From one of America’s most original and startlingly imaginative writers, a novel with all the suspense and pace of a bestselling thriller .–The New York Times. A fireman and a…
When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the events that led to Ben’s tragic demise and determine…
Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker Prize-finalist Paul…
With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through…
Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979-2012 is an updated collection of nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude, from Man Booker Prize Finalist Paul Auster…
A late-night phone call from a stranger involves Quinn, a mystery writer, in a baffling murder case stranger than his novels.
The film stars David Thewlis (from Mike Leigh’s Naked), Irene Jacob (The Double Life of Veronique), Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), and Sophie Auster (Lulu on the Bridge), and joins Paul…
One day there is life … and then, suddenly, it happens there is death . So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster’s moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After…
In Auster’s groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork, an unknown voice on the telephone is begging a mystery writer for help, drawing him into a world far stranger than any he has…
True Tales of American Life is a collection derived from a project launched by Paul Auster on US National Public Radio.
