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Paul Auster
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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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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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.
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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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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 final masterpiece of love, memory and grief by Paul Auster, "one of the great American prose stylists of his time" (NYT)
From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction.
In 1985, Paul Auster's…
‘Exhilarating.’ Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year ‘Sharp-eyed and revealing.’ The New Yorker ‘Brilliant .
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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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…
A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.
Hand to Mouth is Paul Auster's startling memoir of his career as a young writer - and his accompanying struggle with poverty.
A devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.
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A dazzling and picaresque novel.
Written with breath-taking urgency and precision, this stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragedy, the real and the imagined, the violent and…
Paul Auster’s very personal meditation on fatherhood.
Julia Seltnerajch
The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster's fiction. The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space…
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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.
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…
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 compelling story of love and forgiveness, from the bestselling author of The Brooklyn Follies.
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…
Brendan Martin (City University, UK)
Provides a critique of Paul Auster’s writings.
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…
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…
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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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…
This volume of Paul Auster’s collected novels includes Travels in the Scriptorium, Man in the Dark, Invisible and Sunset Park.
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…
Includes the original text and English translations for poems by Apollinaire, Cendrars, Breton, Tzara, Prevert, and Michaux.
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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…
Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan of the sixties, travels from Manhattan to Utah in search of himself.
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…
An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written…
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…
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…
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…
True Tales of American Life is a collection derived from a project launched by Paul Auster on US National Public Radio.
Paul Auster’s spin on the detective story has been given a unique and unexpected new life.
Paul Auster takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst horrors that surround us.
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…
