The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster.This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and professor Lucy Sante, as well as a pulp novel-inspired cover from Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.

From New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster, a dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel “reminiscent in many ways of Orwell’s 1984” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).“Powerful, original, imaginative, and handled with artistry . . . One of the better modern attempts at describing hell.”—The Washington Post Book WorldIn a distant and unsettling future, the masses are homeless, theft is so rampant it is no ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Boston Globe , and Indiebound BestsellerPaul Auster’s magnum opus, 4 3 2 1 presents a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself.“An epic bildungsroman . . . . Original and complex . . . . A monumental assemblage of competing and complemen...

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time" – New York TimesPaul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor – has just forgotten on the stove.Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his...

An “exceptional” (Los Angeles Times) novel of fate, loyalty, responsibility, and the real meaning of freedom with “all the suspense and pace of a bestselling thriller” (The New York Times), from renowned author Paul Auster“A rich, dazzling performance . . . a tour de force about freedom and imprisonment, motion and stasis, order and randomness . . . its story beautifully paced and shaped, its tone powerfully ominous.”—The Wall Street J...

“Nobody—nobody—has produced a better parable about the condition of the national consciousness at century’s end.”—The Boston GlobeAn enduringly brilliant novel of trial and triumph set in America in the 1920s, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster“A charmer pure and simple . . . Nothing less than the story of America itself.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostPaul ...

**"A beautifully poetic work" -- Joyce Carol OatesIn his debut memoir, renowned author Paul Auster shares heartfelt and personal meditations on fatherhood that “integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation . . . as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living” (Newsday)**“Moving, delicately perceived portraits of lives and relationships.”—The New York Times Book Review“One day there is life. . . . An...

A “beautiful and haunting” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel of an orphan’s search for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his fate, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster“Auster is a master storyteller . . . Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries.”—The Washington Post Book WorldMarco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “compelling” (Los Angeles Times) novel of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday—from “a literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own” (The Wall Street Journal)“Rich and complex . . . with fully fleshed characters, a fast-paced plot, thematic sophistication, and narrative cunning.”—The Boston Globe“Six days ago, a man b...

A novel exploring war in an alternate post–9/11 America "is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter" (Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books)From Paul Auster, a "literary original" ( Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.Seventy-two-year-old Augu...

Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's (“One of America's most spectacularly inventive writers”—The TLS) remarkable novel, Timbuktu.Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure, heading for Baltimore, Maryland in search of Willy's high school teacher, Bea Sw...

Three iconic screenplays from the mind of "one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers," Paul Auster.From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster's novels have earned him a reputation as a literary innovator. Now, published together for the first time, are the screenplays of the three films he made in the 1990s.Smoke (starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, and Stockard Channing) tells the story of a ...