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4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of t ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more
Burning Boy by Paul Auster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A major re-assessment of the genius of Stephen Crane - best known for The Red Badge of Courage.
Hunger by Knut Hamsun; Jo Nesbø (Introduction by); Paul Auster (Introduction by, Afterword by); Sverre Lyngstad Lyngstad (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
This existential novel by Norwegian author, Knut Hamsun, is often compared to works by Dostoevsky or Émile Zola, two of his main influences. Hunger has been called the literary opening of the 20th century and is a psychological narrative of a man whose interior is in a state of decay. Knut Hamsun won th ...Show more
Invisible by Paul Auster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, "Invisible" 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 girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker ...Show more
Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken back to the mysterious house on the plains to prepare not only for the ability to fly, but also for the stardom that will accompany it.
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewilderi ...Show more
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his fat ...Show more
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain ...' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable novel, "The Brooklyn Follies". Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells t ...Show more
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitchcock ...Show more
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the univ ...Show more
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An old man sits in a room with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written labels, and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and- ...Show more