City of Glass
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First published in 1985, 'City of Glass' stands as the first installment of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy. Here, it has been brilliantly transformed into a graphic novel that loses none of the nuance of the original. It even gains in effect, due to the collaborative imaginative effort that brings it successfully to this format: 'Machine-like, fitful, alternating between slow and rapid gestures, rigid and yet expressive, as if the operation were out of control, strict, not quite corresponding to the will that lay behind it.' Black-and-white illustration throughout. 144p.
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Collected Prose
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(Expanded Edition). A highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings (including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude), and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces writtenfor magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from baseball to Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the highwire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Valle to Auster's own typewriter, the World Trade Centercatastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, COLLECTED PROSE records the passions and insights of this brilliant contemporary writer. 593p.
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
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The story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat is a memoir in the form of an autobiographical essay about money - and what it means not to have it. Remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters. Appendices. Illus., 3-color insert. 464p. Pap.
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One hundred eighty personal, true-life accounts - from people of all ages, backgrounds and walks of life, from cities, suburbs, and rural areas representing forty-two states. Most of the stories are short, vivid bits of narrative, combining the ordinary and the extraordinary; most describe a single incident in the writer's 'rare glimpse into the American soul.' 383p.
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Invisible
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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 student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three differentnarrators tell the story of the novel, which travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the Left Bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean.
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Man In the Dark
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Recovering from a car crash in his daughter's home in Vermont, 72-year-old August Brill is unable to sleep, lying in bed, telling himself stories, struggling to push away thoughts about things he'd prefer not to dwell on. Instead of reflecting on his wife's recent passing and the death of his daughter's boyfriend in Iraq, Brill creates a vivid alternate reality of an America frought with civil strife. Brill's dream world is so vivid and dark that a soldier from this world is sent on a mission to assassinate Brill to bring an end to the dream, and thus the war. This post-modern reflection on the relationship between fantasy and reality also deals with war and grief. 180p.
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Mr. Vertigo
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This extraordinary and exuberant eighth novel presents a couple of classic entrepreneur adventurers, circa 1927; what they sell is 'Walt the Wonderman' and his famous featsof levitation. What Auster does sublimely is to create the story of these lives long after the magic has been lost and forgotten.
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Smoke and Blue in the Face: Two Films
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An array of New Yorkers become involved with a mom-and-pop cigar shop in Brooklyn in an acclaimed short story, presented here along with interviews with the author and the film's actors and a description of the process of creating a film. Original. Movie tie-in.
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Sunset Park: A Novel
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Paul Auster’s latest novel opens with twenty-eight-year-old Miles Heller trashing out foreclosed homes in Florida, where he fled to seven years earlier. When he falls in love with Pilar Sanchez he finds himself fleeing once again, returning to New York where his family still remains, and into an abandoned house of twenty-something squatters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Interweaving various points of view – that of Miles’s father, an independent book publisher trying to stay afloat, and Miles’s mother, a celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway – the novel’s post-Recession world hovers over its endearing and compelling father-son story. 320p.
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The Brooklyn Follies
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Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, this former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. But, an encounter with his long-lost nephew and his bookstore boss leads to Nathan's gradually broadening his world to include a new circle of acquaintances. He soon finds himself drawn into a scam involving a forged page of 'The Scarlet Letter,' and begins to undertake his own literary venture, 'The Book of Human Folly,' an account of 'every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I have committed during my long and checkered career as a man.' This novel is vintage Auster. 320p.
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The New York Trilogy
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In three brilliant variations on the classic detective story - City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room - Paul Auster makes the well-traversed terrain of New York City his own, as it becomes a strange, compelling landscape in which identities merge or fade and questions serve only to further obscure the truth. THE NEW YORK TRILOGY is published here as part of a series of first novels to celebrate Faber's 80th birthday. 314p.
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Travels In the Scriptorium
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An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar room. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues. Identified only as Mr. Blank - he begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk: the story of another prisoner, set in an unfamiliar, alternate world. As the day passes, various characters call on Mr. Blank, and each brings frustrating hints of his forgotten identity and his past. 145p.
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Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa
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An 1851 extract from Hawthorne's diaries concerning his relationship with his son, Julian.
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