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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Auster, Paul, Fiction / Auster, Paul
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Auster, Paul	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024
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"Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force."-- Provided by publisher.
"A sweeping family saga (with a bit of a twist) about the life and loves of Archie Ferguson, a Jewish boy born to second-generation immigrants in the United States just after World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

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I loved all four stories! submitted by TeacherN on July 26, 2019, 7:54pm Four different versions of the same person's life. All stories are well-written are interesting to read. I have never read a Paul Auster book I didn't love, and this was definitely one of my favorites!

Epic masterpiece! submitted by 21621031390949 on June 24, 2020, 2:44pm Truly an epic tour-de-force by Paul Auster. Stunningly beautiful writing, fascinating premise, interesting stories. But at 866 pages of very dense prose, just a teensy bit too long? As I'm approaching the home stretch of this marathon I'm huffing and puffing a little, but once finished, I have a feeling I will turn right back to the beginning and read it again.