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4 3 2 1 is a 2017 novel by Paul Auster published by Henry Holt and Co.It describes four alternate versions of the life of Archie Ferguson in the 1950s and 1960s, and explores how an individual's life and personality is shaped by chance and circumstance.
David Zimmer appears in Auster's earlier novel Moon Palace. The Book of Illusions revisits a number of plot elements seen in Auster's first major work, The New York Trilogy. These include: The protagonist driving himself into isolation; Extended focus on a character's (fictional) body of work; Writers as characters
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, [3] son of Samuel Auster, a landlord who owned buildings with his brothers in Jersey City, [4] and Queenie, née Bogat. His middle-class parents were Jewish, of Austrian descent; the marriage was an unhappy one, and they divorced during Auster's senior year of high school, he moving with his mother and sister to an apartment at Weequahic, Newark.
“Baumgartner,” Auster’s latest novel — his 18th — contains some of his trademark tropes. And yet it couldn’t be more different from its predecessor. And yet it couldn’t be more ...
Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1,” has died at age 77.
Paul Auster, the American postmodern writer behind 'Smoke,' has died at 77. The bestselling author was diagnosed with cancer in 2022.
In the Country of Last Things is a dystopian epistolary novel written by American author Paul Auster, first published in 1987. Plot summary
Paul Auster, the author of The New York Trilogy and Moon Palace, has died aged 77. The prolific novelist, who published 34 books in his lifetime, died on Tuesday due to complications from lung cancer.