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Paul Auster
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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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
A reprinting in a cloth edition of the great trilogy by noted novelist Paul Auster.
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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…
A dazzling and picaresque novel.
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‘Exhilarating.’ Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year ‘Sharp-eyed and revealing.’ The New Yorker ‘Brilliant .
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Meet Mr Bones, canine sidekick to the brilliant but troubled Willy G. Christmas.
A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.
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And then it started, little by little it started, until they were married five years later and his real life began.
'Exquisite ... A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist.' Ian McEwan…
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…
J.M. Coetzee,Paul Auster
Here and Now is a collection of letters between Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, two of the greatest writers of our time.
Charles Bernstein
A celebration of the radical poetics of invention from Charles Bernstein.
For more than four decades, Charles Bernstein has been at the forefront of experimental poetry, ever reaching for a…
Paul Auster, Spencer Ostrander
A stunning examination - through words and images - of the epidemic of mass shootings in America today.
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.
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…
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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…
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…
Brendan Martin (City University, UK)
Provides a critique of Paul Auster’s writings.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The author of Leviathan returns with a dazzling, picaresque, new novel in which Walter Claireborne Rawley, now an octogenarian, recounts his extraordinary vaudevillian adventures as Walt the Wonder Boy in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A late-night phone call from a stranger involves Quinn, a mystery writer, in a baffling murder case stranger than his novels.
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…
Includes the original text and English translations for poems by Apollinaire, Cendrars, Breton, Tzara, Prevert, and Michaux.