Synopses & Reviews
The Red Notebook brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life stories a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.
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"Auster has added some new dimensions to modern literature and—more importantly even—to our perspectives on the planet." Review of Contemporary Fiction
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"Our pre-eminent novelist of ideas." Kirkus Reviews
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"A literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own." The Wall Street Journal
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"One of America's most spectacularly inventive writers." Boston Globe
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"There's a quiet sadness to these stories, a sense that... identities...are more fragile than we'd like to believe." Valerie Ellis
Synopsis
Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including , and . He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: . In , Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic--that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room--all these form the context for a singular kind of , a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.
Synopsis
brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life stories--a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality.
About the Author
Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger.