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Feb 17, 2018 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: relationships, creativity

The clever format of this book---one character with four different lives---is the draw to this book. It's a huge book, with my hardcover copy of 866 pages, but it's not only long but dense. The sentences run on and on, and the reader can't escape from the strings of words, the story of Archie Ferguson, the stories of the Archie Fergusons, wound around the story of America in the 60's. Oddly, the Archies all seem equally plausible, a boy who adores his father or a boy estranged from his father, a ...more

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Jan 25, 2023 Bogdan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: new-world

Impressive work! This is a novel like no other I have read. A remarkable feat, very well written in the realism style which I like most. Paul Auster imagines 4 different life stories for the main character, Archie, stories which diverge very much one from another starting by few minor details in early childhood. The main character is also the narrator and we see how someone's life can be very different if only a single minor event is changed. And these 4 different life stories are taking the rea ...more

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