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Auster’s Booker Prize-shortlisted epic from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: ‘a literary voice for the ages’ (Guardian)
‘A masterpiece.’ Daily Mail
‘Absorbing and immersive . . . the author’s greatest novel.’ FT
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous but entirely different paths. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson’s story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
‘Remarkable . . . A novel that contains multitudes.’ New York Times
‘A vast portrait of the turbulent mid-20th century . . . wonderfully, vividly conveyed.’ New Statesman
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy. He and Spencer Ostrander collaborated on Bloodbath Nation. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honours include the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the Screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book…
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