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Invisible

A Novel

Author: Paul Auster

Invisible

Invisible

About This Book

The latest offering from an internationally bestselling favorite, INVISIBLE is a continent spanning, post-modern lovesong complete with sex, vengeance, and a return to the narrative intimacy of his most popular novel, THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES.
Page Count
320
On Sale
04/27/2010

Book Details

"One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers."

Imprint Publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

ISBN

9781429982467

In The News

“As soon as you finish Paul Auster's Invisible, you want to read it again. . . . It is the finest novel Paul Auster has ever written.” —Clancy Martin, The New York Times Book Review

“Auster has never been better.” —The Seattle Times (Best Books of 2009)

“Riveting . . . That combination of scrupulous style, psychological depth, story value, and parable-like undertones is masterly” —The Sunday Times (London)

“Magnificent . . . The results are revelatory.” —Houston Chronicle

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