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Baumgartner Hardback - 2023

by Paul Auster

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A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and "one of the great American prose stylists of our time" - New York Times


Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has just forgotten on the stove.


Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.


Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.

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  • Title Baumgartner
  • Author Paul Auster
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Publication date 2023-11-07
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780802161444 / 0802161448
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Widowers, Husband and wife
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023023628
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/01/2023, Page 23
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/01/2023, Page 10
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/09/2023, Page 0

About the author

PAUL AUSTER (1947 - 2024) was the bestselling author of Baumgartner, Bloodbath Nation, 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix Mdicis tranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lived in Brooklyn, New York.

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