Ever since City of Glass, the first volume of his New York Trilogy, Auster has perfected a limpid, confessional style, then used it to set disoriented heroes in a seemingly familiar world gradually suffused with mounting uneasiness, vague menace and possible hallucination. His plots ... drawing on elements from suspense stories, existential récit and autobiography ... keep readers turning the pages, but sometimes end by leaving them uncertain about what they've just been through.
What Auster often gets instead is the worst of both worlds: fake realism and shallow skepticism. The two weaknesses are related. Auster is a compelling storyteller, but his stories are assertions rather than persuasions. They declare themselves; they hound the next revelation. Because nothing is persuasively assembled, the inevitable postmodern disassembly leaves one largely untouched. (The disassembly is also grindingly explicit, spelled out in billboard-size type.) Presence fails to turn into significant absence, because presence was not present enough.
2013 - Report From the Interior (Audio CD) → Paperback, Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781427233349 ISBN-10: 1427233349 Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
2011 - Sunset Park a Novel (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780312610678 ISBN-10: 031261067X Genre: Literature & Fiction
2011 - Sunset Park (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD ISBN-13: 9780571258802 ISBN-10: 0571258808 Genre: Literature & Fiction 2010 - Sunset Park (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD ISBN-13: 9780805092868 ISBN-10: 0805092862 Genre: Literature & Fiction
2009 - Man in the Dark (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780571240753 ISBN-10: 0571240755 Genre: Literature & Fiction 2007 - Travels in the Scriptorium (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD ISBN-13: 9780805081459 ISBN-10: 0805081453 Genre: Literature & Fiction
2004 - Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780805077230 ISBN-10: 0805077235 Genre: Literature & Fiction
2004 - Hawthorne Revisited Honoring the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth (Hardcover) ISBN-13: 9781584653745 ISBN-10: 1584653744 Genre: Literature & Fiction 2003 - The Book of Illusions (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette ISBN-13: 9780571212231 ISBN-10: 0571212239 Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
2001 - I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales From Npr's National Story Project (Audio Cassette) → Paperback ISBN-13: 9780694526130 ISBN-10: 0694526134 Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Nonfiction
1988 - In the Country of Last Things (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780140097054 ISBN-10: 0140097058 Genre: Literature & Fiction
Travels in the Scriptorium (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD ISBN-13: 9780312948405 ISBN-10: 0312948409 Genre: Literature & Fiction
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