Praise for Baumgartner:
“Baumgartner’s mind is full of late—life insights and angst, while his capacity for love provides a rich emotional seam. Auster packs a lot into this slim novel… An always intriguing writer.” – Kirkus
“The subject of lost loved ones and all that follows in the wake of such a loss is hardly unusual in contemporary literature, but Paul Auster's Baumgartner is a worthy addition to the body of fiction that treats the subject. It's a well—drawn portrait of a man wrestling with grief, and a sensitive character study that displays many of the qualities for which Auster's been lauded in a long literary career… Baumgartner's story is revealed in episodic fashion and with precise, observant, and sometimes touching detail… Poignant.” – Shelf Awareness
“Auster presents his eighteenth novel, a finely distilled tale of a charmingly self—deprecating and forthright intellectual and romantic… Auster's portrait of a thoughtful man embracing loss and love is a gorgeous, subtly suspenseful revelation of the covert dramas of a contemplative, kind, and expressive life.” — Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
Praise for Paul Auster:
“One of the great American prose stylists of our time.” —New York Times
“Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter.” —New York Review of Books
“One of the great writers of our time.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Contemporary American writing at its best.” —New York Times Book Review, on Invisible
“A literary original who is perfecting a hybrid genre of his own.” —Wall Street Journal
