Paul Auster

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February 03, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, The United States

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Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Sunset Park, Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Book of Illusions, The Brooklyn Follies, and The New York Triology, among many other works. His books have been translated into forty-three languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Average rating: 3.76 · 75,283 ratings · 6,546 reviews · 74 distinct works

	The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Luc Sante (Introduction), Art Spiegelman (Illustrations) 3.92 avg rating — 13,268 ratings — published 1985 — 82 editions	My rating:
	The Brooklyn Follies 3.70 avg rating — 6,927 ratings — published 2002 — 57 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Illusions 3.82 avg rating — 6,098 ratings — published 2002 — 49 editions	My rating:
	Moon Palace 3.96 avg rating — 4,333 ratings — published 1989 — 58 editions	My rating:
	Leviathan 3.89 avg rating — 4,111 ratings — published 1992 — 29 editions	My rating:
	City of Glass 3.81 avg rating — 3,531 ratings — published 1985 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Oracle Night 3.68 avg rating — 4,299 ratings — published 2003 — 58 editions	My rating:
	Invisible 3.65 avg rating — 3,997 ratings — published 2009 — 39 editions	My rating:
	Timbuktu 3.53 avg rating — 3,501 ratings — published 1999 — 39 editions	My rating:
	Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster, Werner Schmitz (Übersetzer) 3.82 avg rating — 3,065 ratings — published 1994 — 29 editions	My rating:

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Series by Paul Auster

New York Trilogy (3 books)
by Paul Auster

3.80 avg rating — 5,109 ratings

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November 2010, Paul Auster
"The genre-bending innovator behind The New York Trilogy examines the 2008 economic collapse in Sunset Park—it's tough to be young and broke in America." ...More

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Quotes by Paul Auster

“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace

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“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
― Paul Auster

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“It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”
― Paul Auster

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What should we read for our fourth quarter (October through December) 2011 group read?

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

7 votes 43.8%

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

4 votes 25.0%

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

3 votes 18.8%

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

2 votes 12.5%

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

0 votes 0.0%

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