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1	The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.56! \| first editions \| SVS
2	City of Glass more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project more books like this by Paul Auster (Read by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	City of Glass: The Graphic Novel more books like this by Paul Auster, Paul Karasik (Retold by), David Mazzucchellil (Retold by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.70! new only from $5.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Book of Illusions more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Brooklyn Follies more books like this by P Auster add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "Oracle Night" and "The Book of Illusions," comes an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man's accidental redemption. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	New York Trilogy more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Timbuktu more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist A novel about an itinerant man who wishes to do good, told from the point of view of his devoted dog, Mr. Bones. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Oracle Night more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Mr Vertigo more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist Meet Walt, the orphan from the mid-West who is set on the road to stardom by the dark and mesmerizing figure of Master Yehudi. When the Master takes little Walt back to the mysterious house on the great plains, he initiates the tutorial process that will culminate in Walt learning to fly. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Man in the Dark more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Invention of Solitude more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Samuel Beckett, Volume 01: Novels more books like this by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster (Editor), Colm Toibin (Introduction by) add to wishlist In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Beckett's birth, these volumes bring together nearly every word the poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright and critic ever published. see all copies from $7.87! new only from $10.66! \| SVS
14 view cover	Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with Artists more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist Paul Auster gathers his autobiographical writings and his criticism in this hefty volume. Ranging from his brilliant early work THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE to a discussion of the fiction of Knut Hamsun, Auster's writing is interesting both in itself and as an adjunct to his fiction, illuminating his plots, his hangups, and his major themes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Moon Palace more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist In this memoir, Auster writes about the difficulties of a young man trying desperately to forge a literary career. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Travels in the Scriptorium more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Music of Chance more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Leviathan more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist The explosion at the start of this book ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an investigation of another man's life. By the author of "Moon Palace". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	In the Country of Last Things more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster's other work includes "The New York Trilogy" and "Hand to Mouth", and the screenplays "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Auggie Wren's Christmas Story more books like this by Paul Auster, Brian Cronin (Illustrator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $10.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Samuel Beckett: Novels more books like this by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster (Editor), Salman Rushdie (Introduction by) add to wishlist Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images central to Beckett's works. Typographical errors that remained uncorrected in the various prior ... see all copies from $10.08! new only from $14.85! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Voice Over by Celine Curiol, Sam Richard (Translator), Paul Auster (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Not only is it the finest first novel I have read in many years, but it is, quite simply, one of the most original and brilliantly executed works of fiction by any contemporary writer I know of."--Paul Auster "An infrared view of Sex and the City, a snapshot plunged in an acrid bath."--Globe and Mail "With an extraordinary sense of the ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $8.85! \| SVS
24 view cover	Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist From "The New York Trilogy" to" The Book of Illusions," Paul Auster's novels have earned him a reputation as "one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers." Here, published together for the first time, are the screenplays of the three films he made in the 1990s. "Smoke "(starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
25	The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: With Translations by American and British Poets more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions

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