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A reprinting in a cloth edition of the great trilogy by noted novelist Paul Auster.

During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world's greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer. "Indispensable . . . a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, ...

Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family...

New York 1967: Adam Walker ist ein introvertierter Student mit literarischen Ambitionen. Auf einer Party lernt er Rudolf Born und dessen verführerische Freundin kennen und stürzt sich in eine unheilvolle Dreiecksbeziehung. Adams Leben nimmt eine dramatische Wendung, als die mühsam verborgene Gewalttätigkeit Borns hervorbricht und einen Menschen das Leben kostet. 40 Jahre später schreibt Adam die dramatischen Ereignisse jenes Sommers auf und hi...

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Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Paul Auster's first novel in seven years. His greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking, most satisfying work. A sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself. On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons ...

From one of America's most original and startlingly imaginative writers, a novel with "all the suspense and pace of a bestselling thriller".--The New York Times. A fireman and a gambler enter a poker game with two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card". What results is the product of a world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims.

Reflects the consequences of 9/11, that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. This novel presents the story of a seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont.

Paul Auster's A Life in Words-a wide-ranging dialogue between Auster and the Danish professor I. B. Siegumfeldt-is a remarkably candid and sharply focused investigation into one writer's art, craft, and life. It includes many revelations that have never been shared before. This is a book that's full of surprises, composed of spoken words that sometimes jump off the page like good drama. The conversations between Auster and Siegumfeldt went on ...

Professore universitario e critico di prestigio, David Zimmer trascorre le sue giornate in uno stato di semicoscienza alcolica davanti alla tv da quando ha perso moglie e figli in un incidente aereo. Ma una sera un vecchio film comico del cinema muto lo scuote dal torpore: il regista del film, Hector Mann, è scomparso nel 1929 all'apice della sua carriera. Affascinato, Zimmer decide di ricostruire la vicenda e, dopo accurate documentazioni, pu...

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Walt Rawley è un ragazzino senza futuro nell'America degli anni '20. È orfano, vive nelle strade di St. Louis, ma possiede "il dono" e Master Yehudi, un personaggio misterioso, gli promette di insegnargli a volare. L'apprendistato è bizzarro e comprende l'essere seppellito sottoterra per ventiquattr'ore, ma alla fine Walt diventa davvero il "Bambino Prodigio", star di uno spettacolo ambulante di cui Master Yehudi è il regista nascosto. Il bamb...

Abituati a viaggiare insieme sulle strade americane, Willy, poeta giramondo, e Mr Bones, cane dalla spiccata intelligenza, vengono separati dai freddi giochi del destino. Mr Bones dovrà imparare a cavarsela da solo e a difendersi anche da chi sembrerà volerlo aiutare. Così continuerà a fuggire, finché in lui si farà strada la convinzione di poter raggiungere Willy a Timbuctù, terra favolosa dove uomini e cani parlano la stessa lingua e convers...

Per gioco, o forse per caso, Paul Auster ha raccolto in questi ventiquattro racconti aneddoti veri dove la fatalità ha imposto una svolta ai fatti narrati, dando vita a un vero e proprio "esperimento di verità". E così mentre leggiamo queste storie tragiche, fortunate o bizzarre, tutte frutto della "combinazione", scopriamo una insolita legge di natura: la realtà, come una divinità capricciosa che si diverte alle nostre spalle, lega e accosta ...

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A "Faber Modern Classics" edition of this work of three cleverly interconnected novels of detective fiction.

An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and receives visits from a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past.

DAY/NIGHT brings together two metaphysical novels that mirror each other-the stories of two men, each confined to a room, one of them suddenly alert to his existence, the other desperate to escape into sleep. In TRAVLES IN THE SCRIPTORIUM, Mr. Blank wakes in an unfamiliar cell, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must try to cobble together an idea of his identity. In MAN IN THE DARK, August Brill suffering from insomnia strugg...

Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date. In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts ...Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in WINTER JOURNAL, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in REPORT FROM THE INTERIOR.