The Red Notebook - (New Directions Paperback) by Paul Auster (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The Red Notebook" brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life stories--a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including <em>The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo</em>, and <em>Timbuktu</em>. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: <em>The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger</em>. In <em>The Red Notebook</em>, 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 <em>ars poetica</em>, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>The Red Notebook</em> stories, pulled from Auster's own life or from the lives of those close to him, are explorations of unexpected coincidences. A wrong number becomes the genesis for a famous novel; a hero appears at an inopportune moment; a lightning storm harries a group of campers; a daughter plunges from a terrifying height only to land improbably safely; a Paul Auster imposter materializes. Like a magic show, <em>The Red Notebook </em>demonstrates that "there is much to life that is special and serendipitous -- if only we allow ourselves to perceive it this way."-- "The Washington Post"<br><br>A literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own.-- "The Wall Street Journal"<br><br>Auster has added some new dimensions to modern literature and--more importantly even--to our perspectives on the planet.-- "Boston Globe"<br><br>Our pre-eminent novelist of ideas.-- "Kirkus Reviews"<br><br>Paul Auster is definitely a genius.--Haruki Murakami<br>
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