{"product_id":"baumgartner-paperback-1","title":"Baumgartner - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and \"one of the great American prose stylists of our time\" \u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaumgartner'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, \u003cem\u003eBaumgartner\u003c\/em\u003e asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force\u003cem\u003e 4 3 2 1\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e4 3 2 1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunset Park\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoon Palace\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix Médicis étranger for \u003ci\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/i\u003e, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of \u003ci\u003eSmoke\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for \u003ci\u003eBurning Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His most recent novel, \u003ci\u003e4 3 2 1\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47261577380089,"sku":"9780802163554","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VF6VuX7jGf9780802163554_b939c125-200e-45cc-a384-1a0835df3c81.webp?v=1768800280","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/baumgartner-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}