Paul Auster
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Evoking the sounds, scents, and tactile sensations that marked his early life, the author, in four parts, recalls his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
243 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness. "So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...
4) Sunset park
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
7 compact discs (8 hr. 30 min.): digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Auster's magic and emotional novel chronicles a wide cast of characters during the 2008 economic collapse and paints the quintessential picture of contemporary America.
5) Invisible
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
387 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and a student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker is caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.