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The Invention of Solitude
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ISBN10: 0143112228
ISBN13: 9780143112228
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jan 30 2007
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.18 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780143112228
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jan 30 2007
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.18 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
A beautifully poetic work -- Joyce Carol Oates In his debut memoir, renowned author Paul Auster shares heartfelt and personal meditations on fatherhood that integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation . . . as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living (Newsday)
Moving, delicately perceived portraits of lives and relationships.--The New York Times Book Review One day there is life. . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death. The Invention of Solitude, split into two stylistically separate sections, established Paul Auster's reputation as a major voice in American literature. The first section, Portrait of an Invisible Man, explores Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father, a distant, undemonstrative, almost cold man. As he attends to his father's business affairs and sifts through his effects, Auster uncovers a sixty-year-old family murder mystery that sheds light on his father's elusive character. In The Book of Memory, the perspective shifts from Auster's identity as a son to his role as a father. Through a mosaic of images, coincidences, and associations, the narrator, A, contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather, and the solitary nature of storytelling and writing.
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