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PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN-100811214982

ISBN-139780811214988

eBay Product ID (ePID)2154568

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Book TitleRed Notebook : True Stories

Number of Pages104 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicLiterary, Essays

FeaturesReprint

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorPaul Auster

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight3.2 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width4.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-001926

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"The Red Notebook stories, pulled from Auster's own life or from the lives of those close to him, are explorations of unexpected coincidences. A wrong number becomes the genesis for a famous novel; a hero appears at an inopportune moment; a lightning storm harries a group of campers; a daughter plunges from a terrifying height only to land improbably safely; a Paul Auster imposter materializes. Like a magic show, The Red Notebook demonstrates that "there is much to life that is special and serendipitous -- if only we allow ourselves to perceive it this way."", There's a quiet sadness to these stories, a sense that... identities...are more fragile than we'd like to believe., Auster has added some new dimensions to modern literature and--more importantly even--to our perspectives on the planet.

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Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisPaul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo , and Timbuktu . He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger . In The Red Notebook , Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic--that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room--all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica , a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling., Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic--that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room--all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling., The paths of one evil god, two rival empires, three unlikely bishops and seven brave ghosts converge in the destiny of Teito Klein, a boy who vows to master a powerful artifact known as the Eye of Mikael in order to lay bare the secrets of the world's--and his own--murky past. Reuniting Capella with his mother leads to far more intrigue than the tearful reunion Teito and Frau expected. Then, it's off to a Hawkzile Race that will sneak the duo into District 1's enemy territory undetected. But even more dangerous than the destination is the blindingly brutal course--and the growing darkness within Frau. Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for teen audiences., The Red Notebook brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life stories--a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality.

LC Classification NumberPS3551.U77R43 2002