PAUL AUSTER (1947 - 2024) was the bestselling author of
Baumgartner, Bloodbath Nation, 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of
Illusions, Moon Palace, and The New York Trilogy, among many other
works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for
Literature. His other honors include the Prix M�dicis �tranger for
Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of
Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the
Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was
shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more
than forty languages. He lived in Brooklyn, New York.
Praise for Baumgartner:
"Baumgartner's mind is full of late-life insights and angst, while
his capacity for love provides a rich emotional seam. Auster packs
a lot into this slim novel... An always intriguing writer." -
Kirkus
"The subject of lost loved ones and all that follows in the wake of
such a loss is hardly unusual in contemporary literature, but
Paul
Auster's Baumgartner is a worthy addition to the body of fiction
that treats the subject. It's a well-drawn portrait of a man
wrestling
with grief, and a sensitive character study that displays many of
the qualities for which Auster's been lauded in a long literary
career... Baumgartner's story is revealed in episodic fashion and
with precise, observant, and sometimes touching detail...
Poignant." - Shelf Awareness
"Auster presents his eighteenth novel, a finely distilled tale of a
charmingly self-deprecating and forthright intellectual and
romantic... Auster's portrait of a thoughtful man embracing loss
and love is a gorgeous, subtly suspenseful revelation of the covert
dramas of a contemplative, kind, and expressive life." -- Donna
Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
Praise for Paul Auster:
"One of the great American prose stylists of our time." --New York
Times "Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." --New
York Review of Books "One of the great writers of our time." --San
Francisco Chronicle "Contemporary American writing at its best."
--New York Times Book Review, on Invisible "A literary original who
is perfecting a hybrid genre of his own." --Wall Street Journal
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