Book description
In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by
his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single
mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived;
her troubled later years and, finally, her death - and the subsequent
anxiety attacks Auster suffered in the face of her death. In Winter
Journal Auster moves through the events of his life in a random series
of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing
baseball as a teenager; participating in the anti-Vietnam
demonstrations at Columbia University; seeking out prostitutes in
Paris, almost killing his second wife and child in a car accident;
falling in and out of live with his first wife.
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.
