The Red Notebook: True Stories

Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic--that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room--all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/17/2002
ISBN: 9780811214988
Pages: 103
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 6.96h x 4.78w x 0.32d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/27/2002 pg. 34
New York Review of Books 12/04/2008 pg. 36