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The Invention of Solitude

Paul Auster author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:6th Sep '12

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The Invention of Solitude is Paul Auster's very personal meditation on fatherhood.



With all the keen literary intelligence familiar from The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Paul Auster crafts an intensely intimate work from a ground-breaking combination of introspection, meditation and biography.

'One day there is life . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.'

So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, The Invention of Solitude. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A.', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.

With all the keen literary intelligence familiar from The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Paul Auster crafts an intensely intimate work from a ground-breaking combination of introspection, meditation and biography.

ISBN: 9780571288328

Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 12mm

Weight: 160g

208 pages

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