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Overview
Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979–2012 is an updated collection of nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude, from Man Booker Prize Finalist Paul Auster...
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781250245809 |
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Publisher: | Picador |
Publication date: | 05/05/2020 |
Pages: | 656 |
Sales rank: | 682,790 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts."Timothy Peters, San Francisco Chronicle
Hometown:
Brooklyn, New YorkDate of Birth:
February 3, 1947Place of Birth:
Newark, New JerseyEducation:
B.A., M.A., Columbia University, 1970Table of Contents
Portrait of an Invisible Man (1979) 1
The Book of Memory (19807-1981) 79
The Red Notebook (1992) 199
Why Write? (1995) 229
Hand to Mouth (1996) 241
Accident Report (1999) 357
It Don't Mean a Thing (2000) 365
Winter Journal (2011) 375
Report from the Interior (2012) 559
Acknowledgments 641