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4 3 2 1 : A Novel by Paul Auster (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-101627794468
ISBN-139781627794466
eBay Product ID (ePID)228588290
Product Key Features
Book Title4 3 2 1 :A Novel
Number of Pages880 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSagas, Family Life, Literary, Jewish
Publication Year2017
GenreFiction
AuthorPaul Auster
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.9 in
Item Weight33.3 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-020041
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Brilliantly rendered, intricately plotted . . . a magnum opus ."-- Columbia Magazine "Auster's first novel in seven years is . . . . an ingenious move . . . . Auster's sense of possibility, his understanding of what all his Fergusons have in common, with us and one another, is a kind of quiet intensity, a striving to discover who they are. . . . [He] reminds us that not just life, but also narrative is always conditional, that it only appears inevitable after the fact."-- Kirkus (starred review ) "Auster has been turning readers' heads for three decades, bending the conventions of storytelling . . . . He now presents his most capacious, demanding, eventful, suspenseful, erotic, structurally audacious, funny, and soulful novel to date . . . [a] ravishing opus ."-- Booklist (starred review ) " Rich and detailed . It's about accidents of fate, and the people and works of art and experiences that shape our lives even before our birth--what reader doesn't vibrate at that frequency?"--Lydia Kiesling, Slate "Auster lluminates how the discrete moments in one's life form the plot points of a sprawling narrative, rife with possibility."-- Library Journal (starred review ) " Frisky and sinuous . . . energetic . . . . A portrait of a cultural era coming into being . . . the era that is our own."-- Tablet magazine "Almost everything about Auster's new novel is big. . . Satisfyingly rich in detail . . . . A significant and immersive entry to a genre that stretches back centuries and includes Augie March and Tristram Shandy ."-- Publishers Weekly "Paul Auster's long, rich novel--about the life of a curious, observant boy named Archie Ferguson--is well worth the time investment. Auster writes magnificent sentences , and the book's characters are all incredibly compelling , which meant we couldn't wait to find out where the story would take them. 4 3 2 1 is a book about family and Americana and the ways we find and make meaning in the world."-- iBooks Review, "Auster has been turning readers' heads for three decades, bending the conventions of storytelling . . . . He now presents his most capacious, demanding, eventful, suspenseful, erotic, structurally audacious, funny, and soulful novel to date . . . [a] ravishing opus ."-- Booklist ( starred review ) "Almost everything about Auster's new novel is big. . . Satisfyingly rich in detail . . . . A significant and immersive entry to a genre that stretches back centuries and includes Augie March and Tristram Shandy ."-- Publishers Weekly, "Auster's first novel in seven years is . . . . an ingenious move . . . . Auster's sense of possibility, his understanding of what all his Fergusons have in common, with us and one another, is a kind of quiet intensity, a striving to discover who they are. . . . [He] reminds us that not just life, but also narrative is always conditional, that it only appears inevitable after the fact."-- Kirkus ( starred review ) "Auster has been turning readers' heads for three decades, bending the conventions of storytelling . . . . He now presents his most capacious, demanding, eventful, suspenseful, erotic, structurally audacious, funny, and soulful novel to date . . . [a] ravishing opus ."-- Booklist ( starred review ) "Almost everything about Auster's new novel is big. . . Satisfyingly rich in detail . . . . A significant and immersive entry to a genre that stretches back centuries and includes Augie March and Tristram Shandy ."-- Publishers Weekly, Praise for Paul Auster "One of the great prose stylists of our time." -- The New York Times Book Review "Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable."-- San Francisco Chronicle, " Ingenious . . . . Structurally inventive and surprisingly moving . . . . 4 3 2 1 reads like [a] big social drama . . . while also offering the philosophical exploration of one man's fate."-- Esquire " Mesmerizing . . . Continues to push the narrative envelope. . . . Four distinct characters whose lives diverge and intersect in devious, rollicking ways, reminiscent of Kate Atkinson's Life After Life . . . . Prismatic and rich in period detail , 4 3 2 1 reflects the high spirits of postwar America as well as the despair coiled, asplike, in its shadows."-- O, the Oprah Magazine "The power of [Auster's] best work is . . . his faithful pursuit of the mission proposed in The Invention of Solitude , to explore the ' infinite possibilities of a limited space ' . . . . The effect [of 4 3 2 1 ] is almost cubist in its multidimensionality --that of a single, exceptionally variegated life displayed in the round. . . . [An] impressively ambitious novel."-- Harper's Magazine "Brilliantly rendered, intricately plotted . . . a magnum opus ."-- Columbia Magazine "Auster's first novel in seven years is . . . . an ingenious move . . . . Auster's sense of possibility, his understanding of what all his Fergusons have in common, with us and one another, is a kind of quiet intensity, a striving to discover who they are. . . . [He] reminds us that not just life, but also narrative is always conditional, that it only appears inevitable after the fact."-- Kirkus (starred review ) "Auster has been turning readers' heads for three decades, bending the conventions of storytelling . . . . He now presents his most capacious, demanding, eventful, suspenseful, erotic, structurally audacious, funny, and soulful novel to date . . . [a] ravishing opus ."-- Booklist (starred review ) " Rich and detailed . It's about accidents of fate, and the people and works of art and experiences that shape our lives even before our birth--what reader doesn't vibrate at that frequency?"--Lydia Kiesling, Slate "Auster illuminates how the discrete moments in one's life form the plot points of a sprawling narrative, rife with possibility."-- Library Journal (starred review ) " Frisky and sinuous . . . energetic . . . . A portrait of a cultural era coming into being . . . the era that is our own."-- Tablet magazine "Almost everything about Auster's new novel is big. . . Satisfyingly rich in detail . . . . A significant and immersive entry to a genre that stretches back centuries and includes Augie March and Tristram Shandy ."-- Publishers Weekly "Paul Auster's long, rich novel--about the life of a curious, observant boy named Archie Ferguson--is well worth the time investment. Auster writes magnificent sentences , and the book's characters are all incredibly compelling , which meant we couldn't wait to find out where the story would take them. 4 3 2 1 is a book about family and Americana and the ways we find and make meaning in the world."-- iBooks Review, "Brilliantly rendered, intricately plotted . . . a magnum opus ."-- Columbia magazine "Auster's first novel in seven years is . . . . an ingenious move . . . . Auster's sense of possibility, his understanding of what all his Fergusons have in common, with us and one another, is a kind of quiet intensity, a striving to discover who they are. . . . [He] reminds us that not just life, but also narrative is always conditional, that it only appears inevitable after the fact."-- Kirkus ( starred review ) "Auster has been turning readers' heads for three decades, bending the conventions of storytelling . . . . He now presents his most capacious, demanding, eventful, suspenseful, erotic, structurally audacious, funny, and soulful novel to date . . . [a] ravishing opus ."-- Booklist ( starred review ) "Auster lluminates how the discrete moments in one's life form the plot points of a sprawling narrative, rife with possibility."-- Library Journal ( starred review ) " Frisky and sinuous . . . energetic . . . . A portrait of a cultural era coming into being . . . the era that is our own."-- Tablet magazine "Almost everything about Auster's new novel is big. . . Satisfyingly rich in detail . . . . A significant and immersive entry to a genre that stretches back centuries and includes Augie March and Tristram Shandy ."-- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisPaul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel--a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece., * * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Globe and Mail , Kirkus Reviews , Huffington Post , and The Spectator UK "An epic bildungsroman . . . . Original and complex . . . . A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes ."-- Tom Perrotta , The New York Times Book Review "A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read . . . . An incredibly moving , true journey." -- NPR New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel--a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.
LC Classification NumberPS3551.U77A615 2017
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