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Paul Auster
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter journal ... novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world ... From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classic
When Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," led to Auster's collaboration on a film adaptation, Smoke. Now the story has found yet another life in this enchanting illustrated edition with Argentine artist Isol.
It begins with a writer's dilemma: he's...
4) Sunset Park
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Focusing on the enigmatic Miles Heller, Paul Auster's magic and emotional novel chronicles a wide cast of characters during the 2008 economic collapse and paints the quintessential picture of contemporary America.
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2001
Appears on list
Description
One of America's foremost writers collects the best stories submitted to NPR's popular monthly show-and illuminates the powerful role storytelling plays in all our lives
When Paul Auster and NPR's Weekend All Things Considered introduced The National Story Project, the response was overwhelming. Not only was the monthly show a critical success, but the volume of submissions was astounding. Letters, emails, faxes poured in on a daily basis- more than...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
City of glass: A writer of a detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author.
Ghosts: Introduces Blue, a private detective hired to watch a man named Black, who, as he becomes intermeshed into a haunting and claustrophobic game of hide-and-seek is lured into the very trap he created.
The locked room: The nameless hero journeys into...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Correspondence between two authors over three years, offering a portrait of their lives and touching on a variety of subjects ranging from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics, and from the financial crisis to art, death, eroticism, marriage, friendship, and love.
