Paul Auster

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Paul Auster

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

gender
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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: 3.79 · 116,803 ratings · 8,561 reviews · 107 distinct works · Similar authors
The New York Trilogy
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 20,444 ratings — published 1986 — 89 editions
The Brooklyn Follies
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 9,894 ratings — published 2005 — 58 editions
The Book of Illusions
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 8,895 ratings — published 2002 — 48 editions
Moon Palace
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 6,864 ratings — published 1989 — 57 editions
Invisible
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 6,659 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions
Leviathan
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 6,121 ratings — published 1992 — 43 editions
City of Glass (The New York...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 5,273 ratings — published 1985 — 25 editions
Oracle Night
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 6,137 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions
Timbuktu
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5,182 ratings — published 1999 — 40 editions
Mr. Vertigo
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 4,740 ratings — published 1994 — 34 editions
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New York Trilogy (3 books)
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3.90638750887154 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 28,180 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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“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

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

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

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