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4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 Fergusons made of t ...Show more
4 3 2 1: A novel by Paul Auster
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted 2017 Man Booker Prize: Paul Auster's first novel in seven years - his greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking and most satisfying work. Description On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born.From that single beg ...Show more
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
This charming Christmas fable begins with a dilemma: A writer has been asked by "The New York Times" to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The man agrees, but he has a problem: How do you write an unsentimental Christmas story? He unburdens himself to his friend at his loc ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more
Double Game by Sophie Calle and Paul Auster
$91.00 NZD
Category: General
This is the first major publication in English on the work of French artist Sophie Calle, yet this volume is in no way an ordinary monograph. In fact, it takes the form of a "double jeu", a "double game," between the work of Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. Representing an imaginative interp ...Show more
Invisible by Paul Auster
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when 20-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 ...Show more
Invisible by Paul Auster
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, "Invisible" 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 ...Show more
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
August Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the long Vermont night.
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel worl ...Show more
Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken back to the mysterious house on the plains to prepare not only for the ability to fly, but also for the stardom that will accompany it.
Paul Auster & J M Coetzee - Here and Now - Letters 2008-2011 by Paul Auster; J M Coetzee
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Her ...Show more