Best Selling Books by Paul Auster

Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, his long-lost nephew, forces him to come to terms with his past.

From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction. In 1985, Paul Auster''s City of Glass was adapted into a graphic novel and became an immediate cult classic, published in over 30 editions worldwide, excerpted in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Fiction. But City of Glass was only the first novel in a series of books, Auster''s acclaimed New York Trilogy, and graphic novel readers have been waiting for years for the other two tales to be translated into comics. Now the wait is over. The New York Trilogy is post-modern literature disguised as Noir fiction where language is the prime suspect. An interpration of detective and mystery fiction, each book explores various philosophical themes. In City of Glass, an author of detective fiction investigates a murder and descends into madness. Ghosts features a private eye named Blue, trailing a man named Black, for a client called White. This too ends with the protagonist’s downfall. And in The Locked Room, another author is experiencing writer’s block, and hopes to brake it by solving the disappearance of his childhood friend. The second two parts of this trilogy will be appearing in this volume for the very first time as a graphic novel. Paul Karasik, the mastermind behind the three adaptations, art directed all three books. City of Glass is illustrated by the award-winning cartoonist David Mazzucchielli, the second volume, Ghosts, is illustrated by New Yorker cover artist, Lorenzo Mattotti, and The Locked Room is adapted and drawn by Karasik himself. These adaptations take Auster’s sophisticated wordplay and translate it into comicsplay: both highbrow and lowbrow and immensely fun reading.

The insider''s guide and perfect companion to the new film starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Vanessa Redgrave--the romantic story of two lonely, mismatched strangers, transformed into soul mates by the uncanny power of a phosphorescent stone. 40 photos.

In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay ''The Red Notebook'' itself, Auster reflects upon his own work, on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. The Red Notebook both illuminates and undermines our accepted notions about literature, and guides us towards a finer understanding of the dangerously high stakes involved in writing. It also includes Paul Auster''s impassioned essay ''A Prayer for Salman Rushdie'', as well as a set of striking and bittersweet reminiscences collected under the apposite title, ''Why Write?''

In this astonishingly acrobatic work, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature--or art--through essays on Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, John Ashbery, and other vital figures of our century. In a section of interviews as well as in the revelatory ?The Red Notebook,? Auster reflects on his own work: on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing; on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. The Art of Hunger undermines and expands our accepted notions about literature and throws an uprecedented light on his own richly allusive writing.

The Story of My Typewriter is the story of a manual Olympia model that is now more than 25 years old. Paul Auster''s discerning prose is combined with Sam Messer''s illustrations to stun fans of both author and illustrator alike.

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a “post-existentialist private eye.” An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster’s groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year "Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter."--Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books From a "literary original" (The Wall Street Journal) comes a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter''s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget: his wife''s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter''s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill''s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is desperately trying to avoid insists on being told.

"The Locked Room is the story of a writer who lacks the creativity to produce fiction. Fanshawe, his childhood friend, has produced creative work, and when he disappears the writer publishes his work and replaces him in his family. When Fanshawe disappears, leaving behind a wife, a baby and an extraordinary cache of novels, plays and poems, his boyhood friend is lured obsessively into the life that Fanshawe left behind."--Goodreads

Acclaimed author Paul Aster shows the reader how his short story metamorphosed into a feature film starring William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Forest Whitaker and Stockard Channing. The book includes the short story, photos, conversations with the actors and Auster, and follows the process of a germ of an idea being brought to fruition.

Efter et langt sygdomsforløb lider forfatteren Sidney Orr af skriveblokering. En ny notesbog sætter ham i gang med en historie, der tilsyneladende får skæbnesvanger indflydelse på hans liv. Forfatteren Sidney Orr er langsomt ved at komme sig efter en alvorlig sygdom. Under en af sine daglige spadsereture i kvarteret, hvor han bor, går han helt tilfældigt ind i en papirvareforretning, hvor han bliver fristet til at købe en blå notesbog. Denne i sig selv banale hændelse bliver starten på en række begivenheder, som ændrer tilværelsen afgørende for Sidney Orr og de mennesker, der står ham nærmest. Paul Austers Orakelnat er en fortælling om historien i historien, en slags "kinesisk æske-roman". "Paul Auster har aldrig været bedre end i ''Orakel nat'' ... Det er Auster på de høje nagler, og ''Orakel nat'' skal - jeg mener: SKAL – læses af alle, der både vil tænke og bevæges." - Bo Kampmann Walther i Kristeligt Dagblad "Der er ikke én god fortælling, men hundredevis af små gode historier, anekdoter og dokumenter (f.eks. en side fra en polsk telefonbog fra 1937), der spejler og infilterer bogens overordnede kammerspil ... Man får fornemmelsen af at være vidne til et frydefuldt litterært trylleri. Men det er ikke bar underholdning. Under overfladen er det brændende alvor for Auster." - Karsten R. S. Ifversen i Politiken

Sunset Park er det kvarter i Brooklyn, New York, hvor den unge karismatiske Miles Heller slår sig ned i et besat hus sammen med tre jævnaldrende, mens han venter på, at hans mindreårige kæreste Pilar bliver gammel nok til at følge efter ham fra Florida - uden at hendes familie kan anklage ham eller forhindre hende i at gøre det. Husets samling af misfits tæller den uformelle leder Bing Nathan, der kører Hospitalet for ødelagte ting, den melankolske kunstner Ellen, og den specialestuderende Alice. Også Miles far, forlæggeren Morris Heller, som forsøger at redde både sit synkende forlag og ditto ægteskab, får stemme i romanen. Hjemsøgt af skyldfølelse efter sin stedbrors død har Miles ikke haft kontakt med sin far eller stedmor i de seneste syv år. Hver sårede, søgende karakters historie understreger vores behov for mellemmenneskelige bånd, sammenhæng og skønhed. På romanens baggrund af den økonomiske kollaps i 2008 minder Paul Auster os om alt det varige: kærligheden, kunsten og livets mirakuløse forviklinger. Sunset Park er med sit ensemble af unge stemmer ikke en typisk Auster-roman, men en positiv overraskelse, som cementerer Paul Auster som en af de vigtigste nulevende amerikanske forfattere.

For the first time in one volume, two existential classics by internationally bestselling novelist Paul Auster. Day/Night brings together two metaphysical novels that mirror each other and are meant to be read in tandem: two men, each confined to a room, one suddenly alert to his existence, the other desperate to escape into sleep. In Travels in the Scriptorium, elderly Mr. Blank wakes in an unfamiliar cell, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must use the few objects he finds and the information imparted by the day''s string of visitors to cobble together an idea of his identity. In Man in the Dark, another old man, August Brill, suffering from insomnia, struggles to push away thoughts of painful personal losses by imagining what might have been. Who are we? What is real and not real? How does the political intersect with the personal? After great loss, why are some of us unable to go on? "One of America''s greats" (Time Out – Chicago) and "a descendant of Kafka and Borges," (Booklist) Auster explores in these two small masterpieces some of our most pressing philosophical concerns.

An Updated Collection of Nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude, from Man Booker Prize Finalist Paul AusterPaul Auster has spent his fifty-year writing career examining what it means to be truly alive. And now, for the first time ever, in this newly self-curated collection, Auster stitches together various autobiographical writings to lay bare the trajectory of both his personal life and sense of self.From his breakout memoir, The Invention of Solitude, which solidified Auster''s reputation as a canonical voice in American letters, to excerpts from his later memoirs, Winter Journal and Report from the Interior, readers are ushered into the inner workings of Auster''s self-development. His sweeping recollection winds through the halls of Columbia University during the turbulent 1960s and into life as a young poet-turned-novelist, then dives headfirst into the realities that accompany aging today. Along the way, Auster continually challenges the notion of what autobiography can be, inverting the form through fragmentation and, ultimately, illustrating firsthand the brilliance behind "one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).

This title brings together three of Paul Auster''s early novels. The novels featured are ''The New york Trilogy'', ''Moon Palace'', and ''In the Country of Last Things''.

This book''s first section is a moving personal meditation on the life and sudden death of the author''s father; the second section reveals a narrator''s separation from his young son while nursing his dying grandfather

A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classic When Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren''s Christmas Story," led to Auster''s collaboration on a film adaptation, Smoke. Now the story has found yet another life in this enchanting illustrated edition. It begins with a writer''s dilemma: he''s been asked by The New York Times to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The writer agrees, but he has a problem: How to write an unsentimental Christmas story? He unburdens himself to his friend at his local cigar shop, a colorful character named Auggie Wren. "A Christmas story? Is that all?" Auggie counters. "If you buy me lunch, my friend, I''ll tell you the best Christmas story you ever heard. And I guarantee every word of it is true." And an unconventional story it is, involving a lost wallet, a blind woman, and a Christmas dinner. Everything gets turned upside down. What''s stealing? What''s giving? What''s a lie? What''s the truth? It''s vintage Auster, and pure pleasure: a truly unsentimental but completely affecting tale.