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Baumgartner : a novel / Paul Auster.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F AUST	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. On Loan .	27 May 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780571384945 (paperback)
Classification	F AUST
Personal Name	Auster, Paul, 1947-
Title	Baumgartner : a novel / Paul Auster.
Production & Copyright Details	London : Faber & Faber, 2023.
Production & Copyright Details	©2023
Physical Description	202 pages ; 22 cm
Content type	text
Summary Note	"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary. Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient details of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others?"--
Subject - Topical Term	Widowers -- Fiction
	Older men -- Fiction
	College teachers -- Fiction
	Wives -- Death -- Fiction
	Grief -- Fiction
Subject - Fiction Genre	US & CAN fiction