Auster, Paul 1947-

The book of illusions : a novel by Paul Auster ( Book )
106 editions published between 2001 and 2013 in 20 languages and held by 2,803 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this rich and emotionally charged work, a man's obsession with a silent film star sends him on a journey into a shadowy world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. A man's obsession with a silent-film star sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film by comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer's interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer's mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico-supposedly written by Hector's wife. "Hector has read your book and would like to meet you. Are you interested in paying us a visit?" Is the letter a hoax, or is Hector Mann still alive? Torn between doubt and belief, Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. This stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. With The Book of Illusions, one of America's most powerful and original writers has written his richest, most emotionally charged work yet

The Brooklyn follies by Paul Auster ( Book )
78 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in 17 languages and held by 2,709 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, his long-lost nephew, forces him to come to terms with his past

Oracle night by Paul Auster ( Book )
89 editions published between 2003 and 2012 in 15 languages and held by 2,436 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recovering from a near-fatal illness, Sidney Orr, a thirty-four-year-old novelist, purchases a mysterious blue notebook from a Brooklyn stationery shop and is drawn into a bizarre world of eerie premonitions and baffling events

Sunset Park by Paul Auster ( Book )
57 editions published between 2010 and 2013 in 17 languages and held by 2,335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Travels in the scriptorium by Paul Auster ( Book )
40 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 2,225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and receives visits from a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past

Invisible by Paul Auster ( Book )
49 editions published between 2009 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 2,200 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"New York City, Spring 1967: 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. Falling into a passionate affair with Margot, Walker soon finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible is told by three different narrators as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island, in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers."--Publisher description

Man in the dark by Paul Auster ( Book )
37 editions published between 2007 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 2,158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death.--From publisher description

The New York trilogy by Paul Auster ( Book )
107 editions published between 1986 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 1,928 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents three short novels of mystery and suspense that combine elements of standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction

Moon palace by Paul Auster ( Book )
121 editions published between 1989 and 2012 in 17 languages and held by 1,848 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan of the sixties, travels from Manhattan to Utah in search of himself

I thought my father was God and other true tales from NPR's National Story Project ( Book )
10 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 1,845 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts from NPR's National Story Project reflects the work of men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and is accompanied by a look at the role of storytelling in our lives