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NAIBA Notables
Invisible by 2009 Legacy Award Winner Paul Auster
Invisible
by Paul Auster
Holt
978-0805090802
October 27, 2009
Description:
One of America’s greatest novelists” dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date.
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.
Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as “one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers.”
About the Author:
Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of Man in the Dark, Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, Timbuktu, Mr. Vertigo, Leviathan, The Music of Chance, Moon Palace, In the Country of Last Things, and the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room.
In 2006, Paul Auster was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and won Spain's most prestigious prize for literature-the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras. Among his other awards are the Commandur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Prix Médicis for the best foreign novel published in France (1992), the Morton Dauwen Zabel award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1990), and the Borders Original Voices Award (2002). He lives with his wife, the writer Siri Hustvedt, in Brooklyn, New York.
More resources:
Paul Auster biography
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Paul Auster page at Holt
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