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4 3 2 1
Contributor(s): Auster, Paul (Author)

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ISBN: 1627794468     ISBN-13: 9781627794466
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
OUR PRICE: $27.63  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2017
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Family Life - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2016020041
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" L (2.30 lbs) 880 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2016 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 09/26/2016
Booklist 11/15/2016 pg. 21
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2016 pg. 65
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 84
Library Journal 08/01/2016
 
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Publisher Description:

* * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * *

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post,
The New York Times Book Review,
NPR, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus Reviews, Huffington Post, and The Spectator UK

"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

"A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read. . . . An incredibly moving, true journey."--NPR

New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller

Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel--a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself.

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.


Contributor Bio(s): Auster, Paul: -

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


 
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