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... (he references characters from many of his novels) and boring. Far better to read BROOKLYN FOLLIES, NEW YORK TRILOGY, IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS or nearly anything else. ... to be out of print. Too bad, I always called it a Canadian ON THE ROAD...
#12--Try Auster's NEW YORK TRILOGY and IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS. Terrific reads.
... for $5.00, for anything but the "collector's table" where it's let's make a deal. That included a first hb ed. of Auster's in the country of last things for $5.50 which inflated my expenses considerably ;-) Auster is "austere"--was that deliberate, Bob?
Loved that book (IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS), it's one of my favorite of Auster's efforts. And his family memoir, THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE is another good one. The only effort of his I've actually disliked is TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM, ... Finished In the country of last things early this morning. It is a surprisingly hopeful book set in an urban hell, as it traces Anna Blume's journey through an anarchic, decaying blighted city and she journeys from despair to a kind of will to live and to love. The book reads to me as if it was ... Finished In the country of last things early this morning. It is a surprisingly hopeful book set in an urban hell, as it traces Anna Blume's journey through an anarchic, decaying blighted city and she journeys from despair to a kind of will to live and to love. The book reads to me as if it was ... Reading Auster's shadowy, spare in the country of last things describing the hardscrabble existence in a post-mysterious apocalypse city in a long letter from the writer to home as she seeks her sibling, lost there too. In an understated way, some of the bits are oddly amusing; one of the many ... ... just too damn big to fight. $19.50, 17 books (as a member of FoTL get a $3.00 discount.) 1st ed, w/ dust jacket of Auster's In the country of last things, poetry chapbooks by James Merrill, Donald Hall and someone new to me, Mona Van Duyn, vol that won the Pulitzer in 1991. a good day to die - ... ... just too damn big to fight. $19.50, 17 books (as a member of FoTL get a $3.00 discount.) 1st ed, w/ dust jacket of Auster's In the country of last things, poetry chapbooks by James Merrill, Donald Hall and someone new to me, Mona Van Duyn, vol that won the Pulitzer in 1991. a good day to die - ... How about Paul Auster's In The Country of Last Things?
If I recall correctly, this novel meets six of your criteria.
That is, if I recall correctly. It's a short novel so it won't take long to evaluate.
If, however, you're willing to work with a long novel, then there's always Our Mutual ... I like Auster a lot too. Have you read IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS?
I'm about a third of the way through RAW SHARK TEXTS and so far I'm quite impressed. Original notion, well-executed. It's helping keep this flu-thing bearable... ... by Auster may not be the best place to start. Never can be sure though. Expectations and preferences can be so different.
In The Country of the Last Things is basically a post-apocalyptic fiction,- a grim but gripping story. Timbuktu is the story of a homeless man's dog and as such it isn't ... Re: Auster. ORACLE NIGHT is a good read and I also very much like IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS. His non-fiction is superb as well: THE ART OF HUNGER and THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE. Avoid TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM, it's quite appalling and dull.
A very Auster-like author is Nicholas ... ... I also loved Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy when I read them a few years ago.
I really liked Timbuktu and In the Country of Last Things as well, but wouldn't give them more than 4 stars. I've read only these novels by Auster so far, but I plan to read more some day, because he ... ... LAND OF LAUGHS (Carroll)
DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS (Erickson)
IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS (Auster)
Best Crime Novel: LAST GOOD KISS (Crumley)
THE LONG FIRM (Arnott)
Best Western: (Tie) BLOOD MERIDIA ... I nominate IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS by Paul Auster.
Speculative, imaginative and thoroughly literate.
There're also speculative aspects to Jack O'Connell's brilliant crime/mystery writing. He isn't very prolific--four or five novels in the past 20 years--but he's been an amazing and ... ... it in small slices between other things. I can taste it in so many other novels I've read--The Artist of the Missing, and In the Country of Last Things are the most obvious--but it still stands as a complete original. Sharp and fresh and deeply nostalgic too (without the sickly taint of ... ... it. I do love this journal for it's beautiful and balanced selection of articles. Another review via my profile.
8. In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
In a lot of ways this book is similar to the much-lauded The Road but I think it employs those themes in a much more ... ... looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it..."
-Paul Auster, THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS
(The opening words of two of my favorite novels.)
I just ordered the following from Amazon:
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
In the Country of Last Things, by Paul Auster
A Woman in Jerusalem, by A B Yehoshua
Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury
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