Baumgartner : a novel
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Published
New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Meadville Public Library
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Published
New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary. Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient details of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others?"--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Auster, P. (2023). Baumgartner: a novel (First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.). Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Auster, Paul, 1947-. 2023. Baumgartner: A Novel. Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Auster, Paul, 1947-. Baumgartner: A Novel Grove Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Auster, Paul. Baumgartner: A Novel First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition., Grove Press, 2023.
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