Book description
The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace and The
Book of Illusions presents here a highly personal collection of
essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and
newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne
to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit; conceptual artist Sophie Calle
to Auster's own typewriter; The World Trade Center catastrophe to his
beloved New York City itself, Auster displays all his customary flair,
wit and insight.
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark,
The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among
many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize
for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for
the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He
has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for
Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more
than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
