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1) Baumgartner
Author
Publisher
Planeta Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
Español
Description
Vivir con miedo a perder es negarse a vivir. El esperado regreso a la novela de Paul Auster. «El retrato de este hombre reflexivo que abraza la pérdida y el amor es una revelación magnífica y llena de suspense de los dramas encubiertos de cualquier vida.» Booklist
«Una emocionante reflexión acerca de lo que significa amar a alguien. A Auster siempre le han encantado el azar, el eco, y en Baumgartner, esa obsesión maravilla y electriza.» Financial...
2) Act of God
Author
Language
English
Description
Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal's (Manufactured Landscapes) captivating new documentary, an elegant meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck. Using seven stories from around the world, Act of God explores these profound questions while keeping the sky and its output a central visual...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
City of glass: A writer of a detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author.
Ghosts: Introduces Blue, a private dectective hired to watch a man named Black, who, as he becomes intermeshed into a haunting and claustrophobic game of hide-and-seek is lured into the very trap he created.
The locked room: The nameless hero journeys...
5) Invisible
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From the internationally bestselling author of The New York Trilogy and 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster "One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story with Invisible.
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
6) Sunset Park
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this...
8) 4 3 2 1
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
866 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping family saga (with a bit of a twist) about the life and loves of Archie Ferguson, a Jewish boy born to second-generation immigrants in the United States just after World War II"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facing his sixty-third winter, novelist Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations. He takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening of sexual desire to the ever deepening bonds of married love; from meditations on eating and sleeping to an account of his mother's sudden death.
12) Oracle night
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
14) Bloodbath nation
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
783 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With Burning Boy, Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster?s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial...