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Book of Illusions
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David Zimmer, a literature professor, loses his wife and children in an accident, and afterwards buries his grief by devoting himself to the writing of a book about a silent-film star named Hector Mann. Surprisingly, Mann turns out to be alive, and eager to meet Zimmer and tell the remains of his story, some of which sounds oddly familiar to ...
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
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Paul Auster (Editor)
The 180 stories collected here were solicited in 1999 by Paul Auster, novelist and host of National Public Radio's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, as part of the National Story Project, in which the radio audience was invited to send true stories. This selection includes poignant stories about real events, and observations of the uncanny in life.
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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room
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Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity. In each short novel, a detective figure haunts a man caught up in a web of strange events which he may or may not have orchestrated himself.
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Timbuktu
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Paul Auster
A novel about an itinerant man who wishes to do good, told from the point of view of his devoted dog, Mr. Bones.
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The Brooklyn Follies
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Paul Auster
From the bestselling author of "Oracle Night" and "The Book of Illusions," comes an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man's accidental redemption.
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Moon Palace
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This Dickensian novel tells the strange story of Marco Stanley Fogg: his trials of poverty and depression; his rescue by Kitty Wu, a beautiful Chinese woman; and his eventual position as a live-in companion to an old man. Marco's recording of the old man's life story becomes his obsession as well as the focus of the novel.
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Leviathan
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Paul Auster
The protagonist of this novel is a writer named Benjamin Sachs who is widely considered to be brilliant, witty, and talented. As the novel opens, he is blown to bits while attempting to manufacture a bomb on a snowy road in Wisconsin. How he came to this abrupt, untimely end is the ostensible topic that the imaginary author of the present novel, ...
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In the Country of Last Things
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In this post-apocalyptic novel set in New York City, a young woman searches for her brother amid the ruins.
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The Invention of Solitude
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An early memoir consisting of two parts: "Portrait of an Invisible Man", in which Auster explores his own sometimes shocking family history, particularly the death of the complex man who was his father; and "The Book of Memory", in which, by examining his own life, he writes about the concept of memory.
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Oracle Night
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Paul Auster (Read by)
In this novel-with-footnotes, the narrator, Sidney Orr, is writing a work based on one of Dashiell Hammett's noir stories. Orr alternates between the tale he is writing and his real life, which becomes increasingly mysterious and which, in some ways, begins to mirror other well-known works of literature. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Mr Vertigo
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In Paul Auster's eighth novel, a nine-year-old orphan boy is adopted by Master Yehudi, who promises to make him a millionaire and teach him how to fly.
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Music of Chance
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Jim Nashe, a Boston firefighter abandoned by his wife, inherits money that he promptly squanders on an aimless, endless drive across America. Close to desperation, he meets a bitter young itinerant card sharp, Jack Pozzi, who lures him into a poker game with two shady recluses, Flower and Stone, on their Pennsylvania estate. Nashe and Pozzi lose ...
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City of Glass
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A detective-story writer named Quinn becomes involved in a bizarre case. A phone call from a man who believes someone is trying to kill him leads to a case more mysterious than anything Quinn could concoct. In this tale of strange reversals and shifts of identity, a character named "Paul Auster" makes an appearance as a man obsessed with Quinn's ...
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City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
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Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, D Mazzucchellil
A detective-story writer named Quinn becomes involved in a bizarre case. A phone call from a man who believes someone is trying to kill him leads to a case more mysterious than anything Quinn could concoct. In this tale of strange reversals and shifts of identity, a character named "Paul Auster" makes an appearance as a man obsessed with Quinn's ...
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Travels in the Scriptorium
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Paul Auster
Both chilling and poignant, this labyrinthine novel by the author of "Leviathan" follows a man who awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar chamber, as he pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors.
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
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In this memoir, Auster writes about the difficulties of a young man trying desperately to forge a literary career.
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Collected Poems
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Paul Auster
The acclaimed novelist Paul Auster has written poetry all his life. Here is a collection of his lyrical--and highly unusual--poems, translations, and notes.
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New York Trilogy
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Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity. In each short novel, a detective figure haunts a man caught up in a web of strange events which he may or may not have orchestrated himself.
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Ghosts
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Blue is hired by White to tail a man named Black who lives on Orange Street in Brooklyn Heights, and this assignment changes his life in ways he couldn't have expected. This hybrid of noir detective story and existential quest is set in 1947.
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Smoke & Blue in the Face
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Paul Auster
SMOKE is an adaptation of Auster's story "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," which first appeared in the New York Times on Christmas Day, 1990; he also wrote the screenplay for the movie. BLUE IN THE FACE, a sort of sequel, is an improvised film set at Auggie Wren's cigar store.
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Hand to Mouth
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In this memoir, Auster writes about the difficulties of a young man trying desperately to forge a literary career.
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Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
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Paul Auster, Brian Cronin (Illustrator)
It begins with a writer's dilemmaQhe's been asked by "The New York Times" to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The writer agrees, but he has a problemQhow does one write an unsentimental Christmas story? The result is Auster's timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become ...
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
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Joseph Joubert, Paul Auster (Translator)
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks in whispers," Auster writes. ...
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The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, the Red Notebook
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Paul Auster
A collection of pieces--essays and reviews--by Paul Auster, as well as three interviews and an essay about his work entitled "Why Write?"
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Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul Auster (Introduction by)
From Hawthorne's notebooks comes this story of his son Julian and their pet rabbit. It's the summer of 1851, the rest of the family is away, and young Julian and his father rescue a cat from a well, visit a Shaker village, eat beans from their garden, and care for Bunny.
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