false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256142547m/6345193.jpg 6345193 6 <DIV><P><B>“One of America’s greatest novelists” dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date</B></P><P>Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.</P><P>Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as “one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers.”  </P></DIV> 6448995 book 27 11 2009 Invisible total:81|5:14|4:42|3:15|2:6|1:4| 81 299 407 33 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:38 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:01:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:11:42 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:13:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 10 16:36:36 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 16:36:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 6 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 19:02:47 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 07:36:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:01:16 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 07:27:23 -0700 2009
OK, to further expound on Part II, it was pretty amazing, probably my favorite part of the book. The use of second-person was pretty epic, reminding me how much I loved Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler... as well as how badly I must get to (the Part III name-dropped) Perec...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 14:31:27 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 14:56:21 -0700 2009 Man In the Dark and had been really let down by it; a consistent criticism I had heard of Auster was that he was an author with great ideas who often fa...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 14 08:35:39 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 08:35:39 -0800 2009 The Guardian: Invisible concerns the young Adam Walker, "a tormented Adonis", a notably gorgeous and intellectually gifted Jewish American born in the same year as Paul Auster, who studies at the same university. .. we are in Manhattan in 1967, where Adam Walker, Columbia undergraduate and...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 14:38:04 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 07:23:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 12:40:57 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 12:45:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 15:40:18 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 05:41:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 15:10:14 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 15:15:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jul 21 14:51:48 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 22 12:48:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 14:53:52 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 15:03:00 -0800 2009 In many ways, what is important in Invisible is not so much the story itself but how it is told. The novel is divided into four parts with three different narrators, who write in three different voices. This no...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:11:43 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 08:04:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 13:18:18 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 13:18:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon May 25 16:19:26 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 13:11:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 00:30:33 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 00:32:52 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Mon Nov 23 18:21:50 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 18:22:51 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 08 09:46:31 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 09:47:06 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 13:23:13 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 01:49:08 -0700 2009
Is it ... the atmosphere, characters, alternate approach, beautiful prose?]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6345193