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- Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
- ISBN: 0805090800
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113301951
- Release Date: October 27, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #3128 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #437 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #198 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Invisible" by Paul Auster to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Invisible"Browse more products related to "Paul Auster"Review"[T]he finest novel Paul Auster has ever written....As soon as you finish...INVISIBLE, you want to read it again....The prose is contemporary American at its best: crisp, elegant, brisk. It has the illusion of effortlessness that comes only with fierce discipline. As often happens when you are in the hands of a master, you read the next sentence almost before you are finished with the previous one. The novel could be read shallowly, because it is such a pleasure to read." "INVISIBLE won me over. Underlying Auster's game-playing is a powerful moral imagination. And he is superb at illuminating the ongoing reinvention of the self, and the subtle ways in which we collaborate with those who would seduce, deceive and betray us." "Auster handles the books-within-books and multiple narrators expertly, assembling the intricate moving parts with precision." "Auster is in classic form....As the plot moves towards a HEART OF DARKNESS-style journey into madness, the limits of Auster's formalism become more apparent, but this study of a young poet doomed to life as a manifestation of poetry carries startling weight." "In this erotic, archly philosophical thriller, Auster, seductive and masterly,...slyly contrasts the subtle pleasures of the mind with the wildness of the body....With fascinating characters, a spiraling structure, and a HEART OF DARKNESS-like conclusion, this is a sublimely suspenseful, insightful, and disquieting novel." (starred review) Publisher's notePoet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life, in a novel by the author of Man in the Dark that spans from 1967 to 2007. 75,000 first printing. "One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers." AnnotationPaul Auster continues his career-long obsession with the interplay between fiction, reality, memory, and identity in INVISIBLE, the story of a young would-be poet at Columbia University who becomes caught up in the life of an enigmatic French intellectual and his ravishing girlfriend. Told alternately in the first, second, and third person, the novel is simultaneously a story of passion, murder, and revenge as well as a meditation on narrative and meaning. If You Enjoy "Invisible (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Invisible (Hardcover)" by Paul Auster (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! General Bestsellers
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