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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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter journal ... novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world ... From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American...
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...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Correspondence between two authors over three years, offering a portrait of their lives and touching on a variety of subjects ranging from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics, and from the financial crisis to art, death, eroticism, marriage, friendship, and love.
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