Previously, Auster was married to the acclaimed writer Lydia Davis. He married his second wife, writer Siri Hustvedt, in 1981. Sincе he returned to America in 1974, he has published his own poems, essays, novels and translations of French writers such as Stéphane Mallarmé and Joseph Joubert. After graduating from Columbia University in 1970, he moved to France where he lived translating for French writers. Paul Auster was born to Jewish middle class parents by the name of Samuel and Queenie. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.
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.Īs 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. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. 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. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths.
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. Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster’s greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking novel - a sweeping and surprising story of inheritance, family, love and life itself.
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