Kindle store go search best sellers gift ideas new releases. Thus paul auster introduces us to miles heller, a 28yearold. Mark lawson finds it difficult to warm to austers cool take on surviving the crunch. Sunset park opens with twentyeightyearold miles heller trashing out foreclosed houses in florida. However, dispensing with postmodern intricacies, sunset park demonstrates austers power as a storyteller and creator of character. Read free book excerpt from sunset park by paul auster, page 1 of 5. An enigmatic young man employed as a trashout worker in. Paul auster is the bestselling author of winter journal, sunset park, invisible, the book of illusions, and the new york trilogy, among many other works.
The recession novel sunset park chokes up on the formal experimentation and metatextual touches. Austers dry, gravelly voice has a gravitas all its own. These are just some of the elements auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary america and its ghosts. Sunset park by paul auster, 9780312610678, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. She was sitting on the grass reading a book, and not ten feet away from her he too was sitting on the grass reading a book, which happened to be the same book as hers, the same. Set during the american financial recession in 2008, the. Sunset park is a surprising departure that confirms paul auster as one of our greatest living writers. About the author paul auster is the bestselling, awardwinning author of 16 novels, including sunset park, invisible, man in the dark, travels in the scriptorium, the brooklyn follies, and oracle night. Midway through sunset park, paul austers exquisitely crafted, surprisingly tender new novel, book publisher morris heller eats breakfast on. While austers characters have long orbited a woody allenesque new york, where intellectual and financial successes seem completely congruous, the recession looms large in sunset park. Paul auster is the bestselling, awardwinning author of 16 novels, including sunset park, invisible, man in the dark, travels in the scriptorium, the brooklyn follies, and oracle night. Sunset park by paul auster pdf free download ebook. The book of illusions and travels in the scriptorium are among his many works that feature books within books or. Writers not always determined to please the reader are the ones who break new.
November 10, 2010 in his new novel, sunset park, brooklyn novelist paul auster confronts the modernday problems of foreclosure, eviction and. Written by paul auster, audiobook narrated by paul auster. Those who want to do that can probably slap that label on his latest novel, sunset park. Get this book free when you sign up for a 30day trial.
He reads his novel about miles heller, hiding out from the authorities in the titular brooklyn neighborhood, interspersed with discursions on f. He is a master of metafiction, cunningly selfconscious novels with multiple layers that fold back into themselves. An enigmatic young man employed as a trashout worker in southern florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the. Paul auster, quote from sunset park the only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, american novels, british novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of. Halfway through paul austers 16th novel, sunset park, a writer named renzo michaelson mentions to his publisher, morris heller, a concept he. The action centers on an abandoned house in the titular brooklyn neighborhood, where four broke 20somethings have taken up residence.
Goofy larks like 1999s timbuktu aside, its more or less clear what to expect from paul auster by now. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Philip womacks latest novel is the liberators bloomsbury. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sunset park. Love and vengeance in paul austers sunset park in his lyrical new novel, brooklyns paul auster tracks a disaffected young mans wanderings through the outer boroughs, and his struggles with. Sunset park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of characters brought together during the aftermath of. Paul auster has shown the vulnerabilities and strengths of damaged people living in the midst of the modernday economic chaos, and has managed to make them likable. In this tale of an ivy league dropout and his underage girlfriend, paul austers goal seems to be a conventionally satisfying novel that bucks.
At the start of his new novel, sunset park, paul auster merrily disregards vonneguts rule, introducing miles heller as a man with no longings or hopes who has trained himself to want. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Sunset park by paul auster readers accustomed to paul austers complex narrative puzzles in novels like oracle night and man in the dark will need to put aside their preconceptions when they pick up his latest work, a quiet, deceptively simple exploration of the lives of a small group of damaged souls, hanging on by a thread, as auster. Miles heller has lived with debilitating guilt for six years, estranging himself from his parents, who also ache separately and together. Sunset park by paul auster overdrive rakuten overdrive. Paul austers 2010 novel sunset park is another worthy effort from my favourite author of his generation. Austers work is celebrated and sometimes slighted for its formal innovation. Sunset park is a novel by paul auster published in november 2010. For a variety of reasons, paul auster usually ends up in the box labeled postmodernism. Sometimes these elements of the wider world and the literary world overlap a terrorist or a freedom fighter in these books is likely to be a keen reader or writer and sunset park, auster s. Halfway through paul austers 16th novel, sunset park, a writer named renzo michaelson mentions to his publisher, morris heller, a concept. Excerpt from sunset park by paul auster, plus links to. Paul austers sunset park is set in the sprawling flatlands of florida, where twentyeightyearold miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure.
Net login register for bookmarks and favorites menu login. As with most of paul austers novels, he glitters and glides beneath the surface of the text, mixing the obscure with the dazzling, here with sunset park, although it may read like auster, it also doesnt. As with a number of recent auster novels, sunset park does not quite capture the downright inventiveness of earlier masterpieces such new york trilogy, the music of chance, leviathan or the book of illusions, but there is enough narrative trickery and typically sublime prose here to keep. This text refers to an alternate hardcover edition. Philip womack enters the peculiar world of paul austers sunset park. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Writer paul auster reads from his book, sunset park, presented by harvard book store. A new york times bestseller from the bestselling author of invisible. For almost a year now, he has been taking photographs of abandoned things. A new york times bestseller from the bestselling author of invisible and the new york trilogy comes a new novel set during the 2008 economic collapse. Paul auster is the bestselling author of report from the interior, winter journal, sunset park, invisible, the book of illusions, and the new york trilogy, among many other works. Book awards book club selections books by author books by series coming soon kids books new releases teens books this months biggest new releases. Dogged by their pasts and undermined by absent parental figures, characters embark on quests for identity that usually cut through a wilderness of selfimposed exile, asceticism, or both.
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