Baumgartner
A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.
Person: Auster, Paul
Year: 2023
Language: English
Duration: 326 min
Expected to be available from: Aug 2, 2024
- Contents:
- And then it started, little by little it started, until they were married five years later and his real life began. 'Exquisite ... A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist.' Ian McEwan 'A writer whose work shines with intelligence and originality.' Don DeLillo The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is trying to live with her absence. But Anna's voice is everywhere still, in every spiral of memory and reminiscence, in each recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared. Rich with feeling, wit and an eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is a luminous work - a tender final masterpiece from one of the world's greatest writers. 'A master.' The Times What readers are saying: ***** Perfect, subtle, charming, funny and sad. **** Well-written and compelling but also comforting, like catching up with an old friend. **** A, beautifully-written and intelligent piece of understated introspective fiction from Auster.
- Paul Auster was the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, and The Music of Chance among other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His previous novel, 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the Booker prize. He lives in Brooklyn.
Title Information
Title: Baumgartner
Person: Auster, Paul
contributor: Paul Auster
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571384976
Category: Literature & Entertainment
File size: 250 MB
Format: eAudio Stream
Loan period: 14 days