Binding: Paperback
Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Los Angeles Times Boston Globe and Indiebound Bestseller Paul Auster's magnum opus 4 3 2 1 presents a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility of love and of life itself. An epic bildungsroman . Original and complex . A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions a novel that contains multitudes. Tom Perrotta The New York Times Book Review 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 DN a 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 the author before 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force. A stunningly ambitious novel and a pleasure to read . An incredibly moving true journey. NPR
Title: 4 3 2 1 A Novel
Author(s): Auster Paul
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250618801
Pages: 992 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/5/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction