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Winter Journal Book
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TheBookPeople
Fans of Paul Auster, the bestselling American author of Sunset Park and the New York Trilogy, will not be disappointed by this incredibly powerful portrayal of his early life, told in part through the relationship with his mother. Written in the second person with uncommon power and grace, the journal advances from one autobiographical fragment to the next, jumping backwards and forwards in time. A deeply personal book, Auster takes readers from his childhood through to the brink of old age, covering all the pleasure and pain he's lived through along the way. It especially focuses on the abandonment of his family by his father. 30 years after publishing his first book of prose, The Invention of Solitude, this second memoir looks straight into the heart of what it means to be alive.
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Play
In "Winter Journal" Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life a love that was short-lived; her troubled later years and finally her death - and the subsequent anxiety attacks Auster suffered in the face of her death. In "Winter Journal" Auster moves through the events of his life in a random series of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing baseball as a teenager; participating in the anti-Vietnam demonstrations at Columbia University; almost killing his second wife and child in a car accident; falling in and out of live with his first wife.
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Waterstones
Moves through the events of the author's life in a random series of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing baseball as a teenager; participating in the anti-Vietnam demonstrations at Columbia University; almost killing his s
- 0571283209
- 9780571283200
- Paul Auster
- 6 September 2012
- Faber and Faber
- Hardcover (Book)
- 240
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