* * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * * New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller The Millions 's "Most Anticipated"; Vulture 's "Most Exciting Book Releases for 2017"; The Washington Post 's Books to Read in 2017; Chicago Tribune 's "Books We're Excited About in 2017"; Town & Country 's 5 Books to Start Off 2017 the Right Way; Read it Forward, Favorite Reads of January 2017 "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 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250160014
ISBN-13
9781250160010
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237429792
Product Key Features
Book Title
4 3 2 1:A Novel
Author
Paul Auster
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, Literary, Jewish
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in.
Item Height
1.6in.
Item Width
6.3in.
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Pages
880 Pages
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