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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sach's tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of this astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

From a life of ease and comfort, Anna Blume embarks on a search for her missing brother. Soon she finds herself trapped in a city obsessed with last things—with the means and manner of death. In this culture of doom, the masses are homeless, theft has ceased to be a crime, production has ceased, and the only growth industries are dying and disassembly.

Jeder der drei Romane der "New-York-Trilogie" wirkt zunächst wie eine klassische, spannungsgeladene Kriminalgeschichte, die den Leser mit raffiniert ausgelegten "Ködern" in den Bann zieht. Aber bald scheinen die vordergründig logischen Zusammenhänge nicht mehr zu stimmen. Die Rollen der Täter und der Opfer, der Verfolger und der Verfolgten verschieben sich auf rätselhafte Weise. Schritt für Schritt wird der Beobachter - der Detektiv, Autor, Leser - aus seiner sicheren Distanz gelockt und in ein Spiel mit seinen eigenen Erwartungen verstrickt.

En La ciudad de cristal, Daniel Quinn, escritor de literatura policíaca, recibe una llamada telefónica de un desconocido que lo toma por un detective y le encarga un caso. En Fantasmas, un detective privado y el hombre al que debe vigilar juegan al escondite en un claustrofóbico universo urbano. En La habitación cerrada el protagonista debe confrontar los recuerdos de un amigo de la infancia cuando recibe la noticia de su desaparición.

It is the late 1920's, the era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone, and Walt is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by the mysterious Hungarian Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. The vaudeville act that results from Walt's marvelous new abiltiy takes them across a vast and vibrant country, where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob.

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee 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...

When Paul Auster was asked to join NPR's Weekend All Things Considered program to tell stories, he turned the proposition on its head: he would let the stories come to him. He invited listeners to submit brief, true-life anecdotes about events that touched their lives. And so the National Story...

Contemporary master Paul Auster comes to Symphony Space for the paperback of his Booker-nominated tour de force, 4 3 2 1. With author and scholar Todd Gitlin (The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage) and a performance from the novel by Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me by Your Name).

Just as the style of a great writer cannot easily be imitated, the performance of a great reader is hard to duplicate. This volume features some of the best readers dramatizing some of the best writings.

El único hecho inmutable en la vida de Ferguson es que nació el 3 de marzo de 1947 en Newark, Nueva Jersey. A partir de ese momento, varios caminos se abren ante él y le llevarán a vivir cuatro vidas completamente distintas, a crecer y a explorar de formas diferentes el amor, la amistad, la familia, el arte, la política e incluso la muerte, con algunos de los acontecimientos que han marcado la segunda mitad del siglo XX americano como telón de fondo.

Dalle prime memorie d'infanzia alla morte della madre, Diario d'inverno è il catalogo della vita di un uomo raccontato attraverso il suo corpo. In nessun altro libro Paul Auster era stato tanto spietato e dolce. Forse perché si tratta di arrivare alla verità, la più nascosta, quella più dolorosa, ma anche quella più preziosa.

La gioventù e il caso, il cinema e il sesso, New York e la scrittura, le ambizioni e il rimorso, la morte ma soprattutto la vita. Miles Heller ha ventotto anni e vive in Florida. Ha poco, eppure ha tutto: l'amore di un'adorabile ragazza, la passione trasmessagli dal padre per il baseball, e i libri. Il lavoro non è un granché, ma lui sembra farlo come se vi intuisse un misterioso legame con la sua esistenza: affinché le banche possano rimetterle in vendita, deve entrare nelle abitazioni abbandonate e fotografare gli oggetti che gli inquilini vi hanno lasciato.

Cosa sarebbe successo se invece di quella scelta ne avessimo fatta un'altra? Che persone saremmo oggi se quel giorno non avessimo perso il treno, se avessimo risposto al saluto di quella ragazza, se ci fossimo iscritti a quell'altra scuola, se... A volte per raccontare una vita non basta una sola storia. Il 3 marzo 1947, a Newark, nasce il primo e unico figlio di Rose e Stanley: Archie Ferguson.

Paul Auster, como la mayoría de los niños estadounidenses, creció jugando con pistolas de juguete e imitando a los vaqueros de las películas del Oeste. Pero también aprendió que las familias pueden quedar destrozadas como consecuencia de la violencia: su abuela disparó y mató a su abuelo cuando su padre tenía solo seis años, algo que afectó a la vida de toda la familia durante décadas.

"DIE NEW YORK-TRILOGIE": Jeder der drei Romane der New York-Trilogie wirkt zunächst wie eine klassische, spannungsgeladene Kriminalgeschichte, die den Leser mit raffiniert ausgelegten "Ködern" in den Bann zieht. Aber bald scheinen die vordergründig logischen Zusammenhänge nicht mehr zu stimmen. Die Rollen der Täter und der Opfer, der Verfolger und der Verfolgten verschieben sich auf rätselhafte Weise. Schritt für Schritt wird der Beobachter - der Detektiv, Autor, Leser - aus seiner sicheren Distanz gelockt und in ein Spiel mit seinen eigenen Erwartungen verstrickt.

Paul Austers "vielleicht bestes Buch" urteilt ARD "Titel, Thesen, Temperamente": Archibald Ferguson heißt der jugendliche Held von Paul Austers Roman, und er kommt darin gleich viermal vor - in vier raffiniert verwobenen Variationen seines Lebens, ganz nach dem Motto: Was wäre geschehen, wenn...? So entwirft Auster ein grandioses, episches Porträt der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Amerika, voller Abenteuer, Liebe, Lebenskämpfe und den Schlägen eines unberechenbaren Schicksals.