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Remembering Paul Auster (1947-2024)

Paul Auster wrote numerous novels, memoirs, and short story collections. He's best known for The New York Trilogy and 4 3 2 1, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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  • The New York Trilogy

    City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room

    Auster, Paul, 1947-2024
    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 behind, in an omnibus edition containing three interconnected novels.
    Paperback, 2006New York : Penguin Books, 2006. — FICTION AUSTER
  • A single child born in 1947 experiences four parallel lifetimes poignantly marked by shifting family fortunes, athletic pursuits, friendships, sex, intellectual passions, and the same intriguing woman.
    Paperback, 2020New York : Picador, 2020. — FICTION AUSTER
  • Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local…
    Book, 2006New York : Henry Holt, 2006. — FICTION AUSTER
  • Still struggling nine years after his wife’s death in a swimming accident, a soon-to-be-retired philosophy professor becomes lost in the memories of their relationship in the new novel by the best-selling author of Sunset Park.
    Book, 2023New York : Grove Press, 2023. — FICTION AUSTER
  • A group of troubled individuals is brought together by an enigmatic man in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse, including a trash-out worker who photographs the abandoned objects of evicted families, a celebrated actress preparing for a Broadway…
    Book, 2010New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010. — FICTION AUSTER
  • This memoir from the author of The Invention of Solitude describes his mother's life and death and the effects of time and aging on one's body and memory and reflects on the changes in sensory perception as the body ages.
    Book, 2012New York : Henry Holt, 2012. — B AUSTER
  • In Report from the Interior, from his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon to his dawning awareness of the injustices in American life, Auster charts his intellectual, political, and moral journey as he inches his way toward adulthood from the…
    Book, 2013New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013. — B AUSTER
  • Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.
    Paperback, 2009New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009. — FICTION AUSTER
  • Recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont, retired book critic August Brill spends his time haunted by his wife's recent death and the brutal murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus, imagining a parallel world in which…
    Paperback, 2008New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2008. — FICTION AUSTER
  • Having lost his family in a devastating plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer journeys around the world to research the life of a presumed-dead silent film actor, and he finds his life changed forever when his subsequent writings get…
    Book, 2002New York : Henry Holt, c2002. — FICTION AUSTER
  • Paperback, 2013New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2013. — FICTION AUSTER